The University of Georgia Magazine June 2013

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June 2013 • Vol. 92, No. 3

End of an era Michael F. Adams steps down from the presidency after ushering UGA into a new era of growth and prestige

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ADMINISTRATION Michael F. Adams, President Jere Morehead, JD ’80, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Tom S. Landrum, AB ’72, MA ’87,

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Christopher Patterson teaches students American Sign Language

Features 16 End of an era

Frugal and private, an alumnus who loved books left millions to the UGA Libraries

30 New home for Health Sciences The former site of the U.S. Navy Supply Corps School now hosts the College of Public Health and the Georgia Regents University/ UGA Medical Partnership

Class Notes 36 Alumni profiles and notes Thomas Rhett, Jake Owen, Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean performed at Sanford Stadium April 13. It was the first concert ever hosted at Sanford Stadium.

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President Michael F. Adams pauses in a doorway of the Miller Learning Center, which was built during his presidency.

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Campus news and events

Michael F. Adams steps down from the presidency after ushering UGA into a new era of growth and prestige

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President Michael F. Adams on his legacy at UGA

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— President Michael F. Adams on his legacy at UGA

Q: Take us back to June of 1997, when you were named president of UGA. What do you remember about that time?

A: What I remember most about the spring of 1997 is two things. First was the opportunity that I could see for the University of Georgia, which I thought at the time was in the very early days of what would be a substantial rise in American academia.

Second, I remember the pride of my late parents and my two sons, who stood behind me on the steps of the Chapel. It was especially true of my mom and dad, longtime Georgia residents, who were excited about the role I was undertaking.

Q: Early in your tenure, you laid out a bold vision for UGA—that “the people of Georgia deserve a flagship university every bit as good as the people of North Carolina or Virginia or Michigan or California.” Where did that idea come from? How close is UGA to that goal today?

Michael F. Adams

A: That idea was mine alone and is what I really came here to do. UGA is now on every top 20 list and has come very, very close to the quality of those flagships regularly mentioned as the best in the country.

Q: What makes you the most proud about your time as president?

A: It is the people I have been able to attract to the institution. I have said it and said it and said it—it comes down to people and filling every vacancy with a person of higher quality. We truly have some of the best faculty, staff and students in the country here. I am glad to have played a role in attracting some of them here and proud that I have graduated almost half of UGA’s living alumni.

Q: You have been an advocate for the quality of the physical environment. Why is that important to you?

A: I simply believe that the best institutions in the country look like the best. Attention to detail, the quality of the physical plant and the condition of campus are often mentioned by enrollees as the second most important factor, after academics, in their decision to come here.

Q: What will life be like for you and Mrs. Adams after June 30?

A: Life for us will happily have a slower pace. I earned my doctorate 40 years ago at the age of 24 and have gotten up every day since then with a folder containing a full schedule, reading material and correspondence. Most of that time has been in academia, with two stints in government.

I believe this year off afforded me by the Board of Regents will give us a muchneeded opportunity to think about our future, spend more time with our children and grandchildren and analyze what we have been a part of here, what we could have done better and in what we can take legitimate pride. The future is bright both for us and for the University of Georgia, and I am grateful for the opportunity to be a part of it going forward.

Brooks Mall is one of many green spaces created on campus during Adams’ tenure as president.

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Addie Reese Echols, 6, touches a Madagascar hissing cockroach while Emma Ray, 5, observes at the 28th Annual Insect Zoo Open House in April. Featuring roach races, bess beetle tractor pulls, cricket spitting, the wheel of insect trivia, insect hula and live and preserved insect specimens, the event was sponsored by UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the H.O. Lund Entomology Club.

Support for student veterans Students who are military veterans now have

Thinc about it UGA officials have created a new initiative designed to

their own place on campus to gather and learn

promote entrepreneurship and foster economic development

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throughout the region. Dubbed Thinc. at UGA, the program

Veterans Resources Center opened in April in the

kicked off in late March with the university’s inaugural

Tate Student Center. The mission of the center is

Entrepreneurial Week, which featured nearly 40 lectures,

to provide support to veteran students, help them

workshops, panel discussions, competitions and networking

engage in student activities on campus and enable them to have a comprehensive college experience.

In the coming months the Division of Student Affairs plans to begin offering an optional daylong student orientation for new student veterans, host forums to gather veterans’ feedback about their UGA experience and develop a peer mentor program for veteran students. Student Affairs also plans to raise money to establish a student veterans’ lounge at the Tate Student Center.

Get more at dos.uga.edu/svrc/index.html.

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events that brought potential business partners together and provided important information for would-be entrepreneurs.

The new initiative pools expertise from UGA’s faculty, students, alumni and business partners to help others take their business ideas from concept to reality. For more information, visit thinc.uga.edu.

In service For the seventh consecutive year, UGA has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. This honor is the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service learning and civic engagement. During the 2011-12 academic year, more than 24,000 UGA students, faculty and staff contributed over 700,000 hours of service—the equivalent of nearly $14.3 million in volunteer time—through community projects, student organizations and academic service-learning courses.

The 2013 Honor Roll highlights several UGA service projects, including Campus Kitchen, a student program that provided more than 2,000 meals to the aging population of Athens, and IMPACT, which engaged 325 students during spring break in weeklong service projects focused on education, hunger and affordable housing. In addition, nearly 400 UGA faculty, staff and students participated in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service hosted by HandsOn Northeast Georgia and Community Connection. Get more at servicelearning.uga.edu.

New tag supports scholarships A new specialty license plate featuring UGA’s iconic “G” is available to Georgia residents through the state Department of Revenue. Ten dollars from the sale of each tag will go to fund The Georgia Access need-based scholarships at UGA. Sixty thousand of the original UGA tag are currently on the road. If supporters want to keep that tag, which features the Georgia Bulldog, $10 of their annual tag fee will go to the scholarship fund.

The new tag will cost $80, which includes a $25 manufacturing fee, a $35 special tag fee and other standard taxes and fees.

Get more at uga.edu/license or etax. dor.ga.gov.

Socks for soldiers

Coastal land provides research opportunities

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UGA will receive 15.45 acres of property near the Georgia coast to use for interdisciplinary research by faculty and graduate students in ecology, environmental history and archeology.

The trustees of the Wormsloe Foundation are donating the property, 10 miles southeast of Savannah, to UGA to operate as a historical and ecological nature preserve. The donation is pending approval of an access easement by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

The property will be known as the UGA Center for Research and Education at Wormsloe. The Wormsloe parcel contains both highland and marsh land and includes a former slave cabin constructed in the 1740s.

With the addition of the property, UGA plans to design and construct a $300,000 educational housing facility on the property for faculty and graduate students within the next 30 months.

UGA fashion merchandising students sent a box containing about 100 pairs of wool socks to soldiers serving in Afghanistan, where night temperatures can dip below zero degrees Fahrenheit in some areas. The socks arrived at Bagram Air Field in February and were distributed

by USO Duty Manager Michelle Turner (BSFCS ’04, MPA ’11). The project was born when Gwen Hustvedt of Texas State University purchased wool from sheep farmers in Madison County, Texas and Virginia and had socks made to explore consumer preferences for locally grown fibers. After her marketing study was finished, she collaborated with UGA Extension, faculty and scientists from UGA’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and Madison County Extension to find a use for the leftover socks. For more information, visit www.facebook. com/ifsockscouldtalk.

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… Stephen Berry, associate professor of history, and William Kretzschmar, professor of English, both in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, who were among seven recipients nationally of the 2013 American Council of Learned Societies Digital Innovation Fellowships. … Laura Bierema, a College of Education professor, who received the 2013 Outstanding Scholar Award from the Academy of Human Resources Development for her pioneering feminist research in the field. … Natasha Brison, a College of Education doctoral student, who received the 2013 Maloy Student Research Award from the Sport and Recreation Law Association.

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… Judith Ortiz Cofer, Regents and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, who was named UGA’s 2013 recipient of the Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award.

… Jeffrey Dorfman, professor of agricultural and applied economics, who was named a fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, the top professional association for agricultural and natural resource economists.

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… Erik Jacobson, a doctoral candidate in mathematics education, who received a $20,000 dissertation award from the Grants Board of the American Educational Research Association. ... Carolyn Medine, a professor in the department of religion and the Institute for African American Studies, who was selected to receive the 2013 Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Academy of Religion. … Henry “Fritz” Schaefer, Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry, who received the Chemical Pioneer Award, recognizing researchers whose work has had a major influence on advances in chemistry, from the American Institute of Chemists.

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… School of Law third-year students Katie A. Croghan, from Dumfries, Va., and Mary Beth Martinez, from Milledgeville, who won the 23rd Annual National First Amendment Moot Court Competition at Vanderbilt Law School.

… UGA’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps department, which received one of eight MacArthur Awards, recognizing the ideals of duty, honor and country, for the school year 2011-12 from the U.S. Army Cadet Command.

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Georgia was well represented when the Digital Public Library of America prototype launched in April, an initial step toward making available to every American the collections of libraries, archives and museums across the country. The groundbreaking project aims to be a central entrance to a national public library, making local archives digital, searchable and freely accessible.

Launched last summer by Harvard University, the DPLA created seven pilot sites with libraries in Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, South Carolina and Utah to serve as regional hubs. In Georgia, the Digital Library of Georgia serves as the regional hub. The DLG is an initiative of GALILEO, Georgia’s statewide virtual library, and is based at the UGA Libraries.

Content from more than 60 Georgia repositories became available through the Digital Public Library of America, and more will be added.

For more information on the DPLA, see http://dp.la/.

Bioenergy funding renewed The Department of Energy renewed $25 million per year in funding for the BioEnergy Science Center, a partnership of UGA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other university and industry partners.

BESC was established by DOE in 2007 to accelerate progress toward development of liquid biofuels that add an affordable, sustainable, domestically produced option to the nation’s energy supply. The BESC team includes more than 300 researchers from 18 academic and commercial partners.

Research at BESC is focused on enabling revolutionary breakthroughs in overcoming biomass recalcitrance—the resistance of plant walls to releasing the sugars locked inside their cells for conversion to alcohol. The aim is to enable the use of lignocellulosic biomass—wood and grass, mainly—to produce transportation fuels. Lignocellulosic biomass is an attractive option because it is abundant and renewable; comes from non-food sources, including agricultural and wood waste; and can be grown on semi-agricultural lands that are not used for food crops.

Eyes on the sky For people living in Athens, chances are most of their weather updates come from a television station in Atlanta. Forecasters there tend to focus more on the major cities, and smaller towns can get lost in the shuffle. Even with the explosion of online and mobile weather applications, it’s often hard to find detailed weather analysis in more rural areas.

That’s what inspired Matt Daniel, a UGA undergraduate in atmospheric sciences, to create the hyper-local weather blog athensgaweather.com.

With his colleague Jared Rackley, who’s also studying atmospheric sciences at UGA, Daniel provides free, up-to-the-minute weather forecasts and updates online for residents in Clarke and surrounding counties.

Daniel and Rackley have covered a number of major weather events, from the crippling drought that has raged in some parts of Georgia for more than a year to the January 2011 snowstorm that broke the record in Athens for the most snowfall over a 24-hour period.

But their blog isn’t limited to severe weather. Every day, Daniel and Rackley create detailed forecasts for their local readers, telling them when to bring their umbrellas to work or bundle up for an unexpected cold snap.

For more information on their forecasts, see athensgaweather.com.

Kayla LaChance (far right) successfully completed the Army’s Mountain Warfare Course on Jan. 15.

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One tough Bulldog A UGA student and the only female in her class of 66 soldiers, Cadet Kayla LaChance was one of only five cadets to successfully complete the Army’s Mountain Warfare Course in January.

Elite soldiers from all branches of the military, including Special Forces teams and senior enlisted soldiers, attend the Mountain Warfare Course in the mountains of Jericho, Vt., hosted by the U.S. Army Mountain Warfare School. The course provides tactical and technical training for cold weather operations, a training based on techniques learned from Army units currently engaged in mountain warfare. Graduates earn the skill qualification identifier “Military Mountaineer.”

As a member of UGA’s Bulldog Battalion, LaChance represented the 6th Brigade U.S. Army Cadet Command, which includes the 39 schools with ROTC programs in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Her selection was based on her academic excellence, military domain knowledge and a high level of physical fitness.

After graduating from UGA in May, LaChance, a political science major from Newnan, received a commission as a second lieutenant in the Military Police Corps. She will attend the Basic Officer Leadership Course at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.

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UGA’s Georgia Museum of Art has created Adopt-aBus, a program that allows students attending schools within driving distance to visit the official state museum of art. Adopt-a-Bus recruits donors to help supplement funding for schools that wish to send their students to the museum. It was inspired by another program—funded annually by a private donor—that brings every fifth-grader in Athens-Clarke County to GMOA. Adopt-a-Bus is available for grades K-12 and includes an interactive gallery tour and an art-making activity. Schools interested in taking advantage of the program should contact the museum at 706-542-4662. Donors can call the same number or see georgiamuseum.org/learn/outreach to learn more or give online. Gifts of $250 underwrite one or more bus trips to the museum and are tax deductible.

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ARCH UGA students win all four prestigious scholarships Students have received all four of the top national awards this year, marking the third year UGA has had students named Truman, Goldwater, Udall and Rhodes scholars.

Smitha Ganeshan, an anthropology major from Johns Creek, was the only student in the state, and one of only 62 overall, to receive a 2013 Harry S. Truman Scholarship, which recognizes juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to careers in government and elsewhere in public service.

She will receive up to $30,000 for graduate study.

Ganeshan is UGA’s 18th Truman scholar.

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Philip Grayeski, a genetics and chemistry major from Raritan, N.J., has been named a 2013 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar. Grayeski is one of 271 recipients of the one- and two-year scholarships that recognize exceptional sophomores and juniors in engineering, mathematics and the natural sciences.

He will receive up to up to $7,500 per year for university expenses such as tuition, fees, books and room and board. UGA has had a total of 44 Goldwater scholars.

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Two students were among 50 students nationwide who were awarded 2013 Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation Scholarships.

Sara Black, an anthropology and ecology major from Birmingham, Ala., and Ian Karra, an economics and BLACK KARRA finance major from Roswell, will receive up to $5,000 from the scholarships, which are awarded annually to outstanding sophomores and juniors pursuing careers focused on environmental or Native American public policy. UGA has had 12 Udall scholars.

As reported in the March 2013 GM, Juliet Elizabeth Allan, of Atlanta, who is majoring in Arabic, economics and international affairs and earning a master’s degree in international policy, was awarded a 2013 Rhodes Scholarship to attend England’s Oxford University. She is the 23rd Rhodes scholar from UGA.

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Get more on UGA’s Honors and Foundation Fellows programs at www.uga.edu/honors.

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Save the date Students who date in middle school have significantly worse study skills, are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use than their single classmates, according to a UGA study.

Pamela Orpinas, a professor in the College of Public Health and head of the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior, followed a group of 624 students over a seven-year period from sixth to 12th grade. Each year, the group completed a survey indicating whether they had dated and reported the frequency of different behaviors, including the use of drugs and alcohol. Their teachers completed questionnaires about the students’ academic efforts. The Healthy Teens Longitudinal Study included schools from six districts in northeast Georgia.

Investigators used two indicators of students’ school success: high school dropout rates and yearly teacher-rated study skills.

“Some students never or hardly ever reported dating from middle to high school, and these students had consistently the best study skills according to their teachers,” says Orpinas. “Other students dated infrequently in middle school but increased the frequency of dating in high school.

We also saw a large number of students who reported dating since sixth grade.”

Of the early daters, a large portion of the study group—38 percent—reported dating at almost all measurement points throughout the study. The second at-risk segment, identified as “high middle school dating,” represented 22 percent of the sample. One hundred percent of these students dated in sixth grade.

At all points in time, students who reported the lowest frequency of dating had the best study skills and the students with the highest frequency of dating had the worst study skills. Study skills refer to behaviors that lead to academic success such as doing work for extra credit, being well organized, finishing homework, working hard and reading assigned chapters.

Children in these early dating groups were also twice as likely to use alcohol and drugs.

The study was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

Get more at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ doi/10.1111/jora.12029/abstract.

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Women swimmers and divers capture title

The UGA women’s swimming and diving team won the NCAA championship in March. The title is the fifth in the program’s history. Georgia won in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005, giving Jack Bauerle-led teams titles in three different decades.

Bauerle was chosen as the National Coach of the Year for the sixth time. He earned previous honors in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2005 and 2006. Earlier this year, Bauerle was selected as the SEC Coach of the Year for the 14th time after leading the Lady Bulldogs to the conference title.

Swimmer Allison Schmitt, who won three gold medals, one silver and one bronze in the 2012 Olympic Games in London, was named the Honda Sports Award winner for swimming and is a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year Award and the 2013 Honda Cup, to be presented June 24.

New Atlanta office to support economic development UGA will open a new office in Atlanta to provide a closer link with the business sector and the Georgia Department of Economic Development, Presidentelect Jere Morehead announced in March. The Atlanta office also will make the considerable research, public service and outreach resources of the university more accessible for communities, development authorities and Chambers of Commerce. Margaret Wagner Dahl, who serves as associate provost for economic development as well as director of the Georgia BioBusiness Center, will become associate vice president for economic development. Dahl will remain director of the GBBC. The new Atlanta and campus offices will report jointly to Vice President for Research David Lee and Vice President for Public Service and Outreach Jennifer Frum. The reorganization of UGA’s economic development activities and programs will build upon the many economic development efforts the university currently has in place. The BioBusiness Center has helped launch more than 30 companies that have attracted more than $150 million in investment, and UGA is consistently ranked among the top 10 universities in the nation for moving research discoveries into the marketplace.

East Campus residence hall named An East Campus residence hall known as Building 1512 since it opened in 2004 has been named to honor the late Gov. George D. Busbee. Georgia’s 77th governor championed education during his time in office, particularly kindergarten through 12th grade, establishing the statewide public kindergarten system. Busbee died in 2004 at age 76. Building 1512 opened in the fall of 2004 along with three named residence halls—McWhorter Hall, Rooker Hall and Vandiver Hall. The apartment-style buildings offer two-, three- and four-bedroom options to more than 1,200 students.

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Seared duck brings home a silver Food Services Chef Shelly Orozco-Marrs’ recipe of seared duck with pancetta and chevre polenta, thyme butter carrots, sautéed arugula and spiced Madeira cherry jus earned a silver medal in the 2013 National Association of College and University Food Services Southern Region Culinary Challenge.

Orozco-Marrs was one of six chefs selected to compete in the regionals held at Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas. Duck was the mandatory ingredient for all competitors, from Georgia Southern University, Oklahoma State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Vanderbilt University.

This is the 13th regional NACUFS competition in which a UGA Food Services chef has competed. The university has had a chef selected every year since 2001.

The competition is judged and medals awarded by chefs from the American Culinary Federation. This is the second medal for Orozco-Marrs, who received a bronze in the 2011 Southern Region Culinary Challenge.

Need to know when the next campus bus will arrive? What’s on the menu at Snelling?

If the Diamond Dawgs are winning? You can find that and more information on a new central mobile app planned and designed by the Student Government Association working with UGA Enterprise Information Technology Services.

The app has a campus map and building search, a UGA people search, a UGA majors search, customizable calendars and locations and a quick contacts list with the ability to call Designated Dawgs, a free designated-driving service.

One of the most anticipated functions of the UGA app is the campus bus tracker—a feature that allows users to pinpoint the next arrival time of buses by routes to their location, based on GPS technology. The app also shows the real-time capacity of dining halls and lets users see nutritional information for dining hall food choices.

Future versions of the app will include a student information system through which students can register for classes.

Available in the Apple App Store (search for University of Georgia, UGA and Bulldog) the app is offered for the iPhone, iPad or iPod.

Exam survival kits

Star light, star bright In a galaxy far, far away burns a star now known as UGA-1785 thanks to Roger Hunter (BS ’78), who leads the NASA search for inhabitable planets outside our solar system. The Kepler mission, as it’s known, recently found three planets with light collected from the host star. The light from the star originated in 1801, NASA scientists determined, the first year of classes at UGA. Hunter asked and was told that yes, the star could be nicknamed for UGA and the year the university was chartered. The Kepler Space Telescope, launched in 2009, provides the technology to explore other galaxies. Since then, project scientists have confirmed the existence of 115 planets outside our solar system.

Learn more about Hunter and Kepler from this June 2011 GM feature story: http://tinyurl.com/bq89nhy.

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Junior Laura Higgason, a student ambassador for the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, packs exam survival kits to be given out at the end of spring semester.

Filled with snacks and water, the kits are funded by the FACS Alumni Association and packaged and distributed by FACS student ambassadors. In the program’s third year, 350 kits were distributed over two days in April to students with classes in Dawson Hall.

GOING GREEN

Sustainability superstars

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The Tanyard Creek Chew Crew returned to campus in April. UGA’s semi-resident goat herd munched away at the kudzu, English ivy, privet and other invasive plants on the grounds next to the Hull Street parking deck on North Campus. Once a week, volunteers met at the site to pick up trash, sow native plant seeds to help stabilize the soil and assist the goats by cutting down vegetation that’s too tall for the animals to reach. Above, Magali Marlowe (AB ’12) helps Eric MacDonald (right), associate professor in the College of Environment and Design, label invasive plants. The Chew Crew was created last year when Zach Richardson (BLA ’12), now a grad student, wrote a grant proposal that was funded by the Office of Sustainability.

Four members of the UGA community received 2013 Sustainable UGA Awards, presented by the UGA Office of Sustainability, as part of Athens-Clarke County’s GreenFest in April. Junior Matthew Tyler, graduate student Zach Richardson, faculty member Alfie Vick and staff member Katy Smith were recognized by their peers for demonstrating dedicated efforts to conserve natural resources, advance sustainability initiatives and improve quality of life both on and off campus.

Tyler received the 2013 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award. As a leader of Students for Environmental Action, Tyler has helped spearhead hands-on projects aimed at improving the quality of life on campus and in the community. His involvement ranges from the Lunchbox Garden Project, where he teaches gardening and nutrition to local elementary school students, to a student-led energy audit of UGA’s Park Hall and coordination of UGA Earth Week.

Richardson was honored with the 2013 Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Richardson volunteers in the UGA and Athens communities and, in particular, talks about land use, water quality and innovative solutions to everyday environmental challenges.

With the help of a 2012-13 Campus Sustainability Grant, Richardson established the Tanyard Creek Chew Crew (see above left).

Vick, an associate professor in the College of Environment and Design, received the 2013 Outstanding Faculty Award. Through collaboration and service, he conveys his passion for establishing healthy communities through appropriate ecological design to his students and community members alike. From the Athens Land Trust to the Institute of Native American Studies and the U.S. Green Building Council, Vick shares his time and expertise beyond campus to improve people’s quality of life and the natural environment.

Smith, a water quality program coordinator who works in the UGA Marine Extension Service in Brunswick, was honored with the 2013 Outstanding Staff Award. From reusing and recycling to improving water quality and marine ecosystems, she teaches students of all ages how to make a difference environmentally through simple, tangible actions that can be integrated into daily lives.

For more information, see www.sustainability.uga.edu.

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Katie Bridges, a senior economics and sociology major from Lawrenceville, fills up the tires and adjusts the seat on her bicycle at the new Ramsey Center bike self-repair station. The station features basic tools and an air pump to address minor repair needs.

Users also can scan a QR code, a bar code that functions with most smart phones, located on the station to access helpful repair tips. Anyone can use the station free of charge. The station was created via a partnership between the Ramsey Student Center, UGA Recreational Sports and the Facilities Management Division.

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CLOSE UP

Communicating without words Christopher Patterson teaches students American Sign Language

by Aaron Hale photos by Dot Paul Christopher Patterson signs at his home with one of his foster children.

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t is Easter and Christopher Patterson is dyeing eggs with three of the foster children he and his husband Stephen have had since March. Patterson teaches them the word in sign language for each color.

The oldest, 10, asks how to sign “tea,” his favorite drink.

Patterson uses his hands to mimic the act of brewing a cup of hot tea.

One hand appears to hold a cup, while the other motions as if it’s steeping a tea bag in the cup of water.

It has been a tough sign for the boy to master since he drinks iced tea, not hot tea.

The lessons are a necessity for the children—a newborn and two 1-yearolds in addition to the 10-year-old—if they want to effectively communicate with their foster, and possibly permanent, parents. Patterson is deaf.

“The earlier any child is exposed to and begins to acquire language, the better that child’s communication skills will become,” he explains.

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D.C., where gay marriage is legal) is a professional sign language translator.

Observing his class is a little like watching a game of charades as students act out words or phrases for each other to guess what it is they’re trying to tell them. The students have to guess using only gestures as well.

Learning to act out words they don’t know how to sign is an important part of sign language communication and a way to understand what the world is like for a person who can’t hear.

“What do you do when you are a deaf person and you don’t know what to sign?” Patterson asks. “You gesture.”

For verbal students learning how to communicate with deaf people, the first challenge is learning to communicate with the instructor.

“If you have a question, you can try to gesticulate, you can try to take the time and spell it out, but you know you’re improving when you’re able to communicate with your instructor,” says Matthew Taylor, a senior communication studies major from Sandersville.

Patterson decided to dedicate his life to education for and about deaf people mainly because of his

experiences growing up deaf in Albany and Tifton. Born prematurely, Patterson lost his hearing when he contracted spinal meningitis a week after he was born.

During an interview assisted

by Katie Wilson, a sign language interpreter in UGA’s Disability Resource Center, Patterson explains that he was fortunate to have grandparents, Carolyn and Ed White, who quickly learned ASL and taught it to him. Still, his formal education was frustrating because many teachers didn’t understand his disability.

He recalls some teachers and administrators getting his attention by pulling his face toward them—a practice he felt bordered on abuse.

He decided to try and make the educational experience better for other deaf children.

Patterson taught at the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf before becoming a lecturer at UGA, where he is getting his doctorate in elementary education.

Teaching hearing students to sign means teaching them them how to present the language without words.

When Patterson signs, he often uses his whole body. While his hands and

arms make the words and sentences, his posture and his facial expressions convey the meaning, telling other people whether he is joking, serious, sarcastic or frustrated. It’s that part of the language that fascinates Samm Dyar, a junior international affairs major.

“I have fallen in love with the language—with the beauty of the language,” Dyar says. “It’s very expressive.

For me, it is very natural, because I’m a naturally expressive person.”

For students like Dyar, who are excelling in sign language, Patterson encourages them to explore possible career options in interpreting.

He also tries to teach his students about the culture of deaf people.

ASL students are required to participate in events in Athens that center around the deaf community. Throughout the semester, Patterson arranges outings between his students and Athens residents who are deaf to socialize and practice sign language beyond the confines of a classroom.

“You have to go out and meet deaf people,” he signs. “You have to go out and be immersed in it.”

Through the College of Education, UGA’s national reputation for deaf education is growing. Joseph Tobin, the Elizabeth Garrard Hall Professor of Early Childhood Education, has been recognized for his research into deaf kindergarten education in the U.S., France and Japan. Patterson hopes to build on that reputation.

Already there are wait lists for beginning ASL classes. That popularity is encouraging to Patterson, who would like to see UGA offer a minor in deaf studies to include classes in deaf culture and history.

“I’m really hoping our program just takes off,” he signs.

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(Top) Patterson teaches his level III class a gesture. (Middle) Samm Dyar (center), a junior from Summerville speaks with her hands during class. (Bottom) Terrence Cain, a senior studying psychology and consumer economics, is a student in Patterson’s ASL class.

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End of an era

Michael F. Adams steps down from the presidency after ushering UGA into a new era of growth and prestige

by Krista Reese (MA ’80)

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ixteen years,” says President Michael F. Adams.

“Where did it go?”

At the start of a long interview in February, Adams is almost wistful. Soon, however, he is ticking off his career’s proudest accomplishments: the creation of five new colleges and schools including a College of Engineering, which opened just last year; a partnership with the Medical College of Georgia (now Georgia Regents University at Augusta), housed on UGA’s Health Sciences Campus; a significant increase in fundraising; and “acres of asphalt we have removed, and the acres of green space we’ve created.”

Still, the buildings and campus improvements compete in his memory with the narrative and relationships Adams has forged over the years. At 65, he is stepping down from the job he has held since 1997. He’ll take a year off, “just to clear my head,” he says, before returning to campus to teach and do research.

“My love will always be deep for the University of Georgia,” he told a campus crowd in an occasionally tearful speech when he announced his retirement last year.

“Our hearts are here,” he says today, explaining his and wife Mary’s decision to stay in Athens.

In these last few months in office, the president is on something of a victory lap, collecting one honor after another. In February he received the Chief Executive Leadership Award from District III of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. Former Braves pitcher and Kings Ridge Christian School board member John Smoltz presented the award, telling him, “You are my hero.” Adams’ tenure has marked an impressive era of both prosperity and academic growth for the University of Georgia. The student body is significantly larger, incoming students have higher SAT scores and the student population is more racially and ethnically diverse.

Despite an economic downturn in 2008, which forced state lawmakers to significantly reduce state

1998 1997 President Michael F. Adams takes the helm Sept. 1.

Professor Ed Larson receives the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Summer for the Gods.

Uga V plays his father, Uga IV, in the Clint Eastwood-directed “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.”

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Accompanied by press, Michael F. Adams walks through the Arch on his first visit to campus after being named the 21st president of UGA in 1997.

funding to its college campuses, the UGA campus is greener and dotted with such new buildings as the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, an addition to the Tate Student Center and the 200,000-square-foot Miller Learning Center.

The endowment has tripled. Academically, UGA’s reach is deeper and wider, stretching across the globe through study abroad programs on each of the seven continents. It is now ranked among the top five in the nation for student participation in short-term study abroad programs.

Adams has also overseen the opening of the School of Public and International Affairs (2001), the College of Public Health (2005), the Eugene P. Odum School of Ecology (2007) and the College of Engineering (2012), and worked through the University System of Georgia Board of Regents to

Reed Hall, a popular student residence hall, undergoes a $10.4 million renovation.

The 1953 building is rewired to provide highspeed Internet access.

1999 Four UGA teams win NCAA championships in swimming, gymnastics, tennis and golf.

UGA’s Visitors Center gets a major facelift.

Ever-growing demand for guided campus tours surpasses the number of visits generated during the Olympic Games two years earlier.

The Zell B. Miller Learning Center (left), built in 2003 and named after the former governor in 2008, combines instruction and library space.

Below, Adams and Mikhail Gorbachev (center), who visited campus to receive the 2001 Delta Prize for Global Understanding.

One of Adams’ early and biggest supporters is former Gov. Zell Miller, who was governor when the board of regents selected Adams as president.

“I don’t know that there’s another Mike Adams out there,” Miller said in early January, as the official search for a new president was underway.

Like Miller, Adams hails from a modest background and credits education (and the parents who encouraged it) as the key to his success. Like Adams, Miller’s legacy includes one transformative factor that has undeniably enriched the state, students, employers, parents and the university: The lottery-funded HOPE Scholarship, that covers tuition and some fees for students who DOROTHY KOZLOWSKI

establish a partnership with the Georgia Regents University medical school on the UGA campus. In 2012, that program, as well as the College of Public Health, moved to the former campus of the U.S. Navy Supply Corps School, a 56-acre tract in west Athens, now known as the UGA Health Sciences Campus.

Beyond those achievements, Adams seems to cherish his relationships with colleagues, some lasting over a decade, and perhaps especially his rapport with students. He has taught a course in political communications throughout his term and invites students from his class to the president’s house on Prince Avenue to watch returns come in on election nights in November.

“He was an inspiration,” says former Student Government Association President Mallory Davis (AB ’13), who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communication studies. “I consider it an honor to have worked by his side.”

Former President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalyn Carter receive the inaugural Delta Prize for Global Understanding.

The new Edgar L. Rhodes Center for Animal and Dairy Science provides new laboratory, instruction and research space.

Built in 1905, Meigs Hall is renovated with technologically advanced classrooms, later becoming home to the Institute of Higher Education.

Former Soviet president and 1990 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mikhail Gorbachev speaks at UGA, telling the audience that the path to peaceful existence on Earth starts with global awareness.

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Herty Field is converted to a public plaza with a large green lawn and a fountain.

Equestrian becomes a new UGA women’s varsity sport, the first since softball in 1996.

Architects and workers preserve and restore the 1907 Administration Building.

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Adams teaches a freshman seminar in 2002. He has taught a course in political communications throughout his term.

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Herty Field is a prominent example of Adams’ emphasis on creating campus green space. Originally the site of UGA’s first home football game against Mercer University in 1892, the field later was used as a parking lot. In 1999 it was converted to green space and in 2001, wireless Internet access was added.

graduate from high school with a B average and maintain that GPA while in college.

HOPE is credited with keeping more of the state’s top students in Georgia for their post-secondary education.

However, as the scholarship’s architect and champion, Miller insists most of the credit for the university’s progress under HOPE belongs to Adams.

“Oh, I disagree,” he says from his home in Young Harris, his crisp North Georgia accent sharpening when asked if any UGA president might have benefited from HOPE’s

2001 UGA marks 40 years since the university was desegregated with a symposium. The Academic Building, where Charlayne Hunter-Gault (ABJ ’63) and the late Hamilton Holmes (BS ’63) registered for classes in 1961, is renamed the HolmesHunter Academic Building.

introduction. “It was Mike Adams that made UGA the prestigious university it is today.

“I’m his biggest fan. What he has done is historic.”

Though he has spent his career in academia, Adams’ first love was politics. Chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Howard Baker, a Republican from Tennessee, and advisor to then-Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander, now a U.S. senator, his experience proved invaluable in working with Georgia legislators, who determine how much state money the university system will receive each year.

Loch Johnson, Regents Professor and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs, says Adams’ ability to befriend and bend ears served him well with lawmakers. His experience with Baker and Alexander gave him credibility, Johnson says.

“That helped us,” Johnson says. “They thought, ‘He’s one of us.’”

“These [university president] jobs are in some ways a public official job, like being mayor,” says Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities.

“Those skills getting people together to get things done were unquestionably of great value. He’s smart. Politically sensitive.

He had a vision of what he needed to get done.”

Intangibles, like “pleasant places to study,” were important when it came to planning the Miller Learning Center, says Steve Jones (BBA ’78, JD ’87), U.S. District

The College of Environment and Design is formed as the first new college at UGA since 1969.

The School of Public and International Affairs is created from the department of political science.

External grants for research, instruction, and public service and outreach set a new record, surpassing $200 million for the first time.

The UGA Foundation purchases a 155-acre working farm and ecotourism facility in the upper San Luis Valley of the Monteverde region in Costa Rica. A full campus for study abroad is developed on the site.

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2002

Candler Hall, built in 1901, is renovated and upgraded to serve as home for SPIA.

A team led by Professor Steve Stice produces the first calf cloned from cells of a slaughtered cow. Named K.C., for “kidney cell,” the calf exemplifies how beef producers could potentially stock their herds with clones of the highest quality animals.

Sanford Stadium gets 5,500 new seats added to the north side.

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In his 1998 State of the University address, Adams emphasized the importance of expanding and strengthening international education. UGA now offers more than 170 study abroad and exchange programs, with year-round residential sites in Costa Rica (above); Oxford, England; and Cortona, Italy. Below, Adams slips the official collar on Russ, who served two terms as interim mascot for the Bulldogs before being named Uga IX in September 2012.

Court Judge for the Northern District of Georgia and outgoing president of the UGA Alumni Association. “The learning experience involves all that space. It makes you a full person.

He’s made the students the number one priority. The students’ life at the university is one they will remember for 50 years.”

Adams’ affability can be deceiving—his flinty determination comes to the fore when required.

Colleagues cite his ability to “play chess three moves ahead” and his skill in seeking input from and finding consensus among a diverse community, as well as his singular focus on goals, doggedly clicking off priorities until he achieves them.

“He always came with ideas,” Miller remembers of their meetings.

“Three months later he would ask about them. It gave me time to think.”

“He runs a great meeting,” says Cader Cox Jr., CEO of Riverview Plantation and UGA Research Foundation member. “He doesn’t let people chase rabbits too far.”

“He does have an appreciation for how you connect the dots to make things work,” says Board of Regents Chair Dink NeSmith (ABJ ’70).

On this February day, Adams is looking back.

Born in Montgomery, Ala., and educated at public schools in Tennessee and Georgia, Adams grew up in a loving environment that was also highly religious and conservative. Still, he says, his parents would never have dreamed of trying to tell his teachers how or what to instruct him.

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2004 UGA builds the Jack Turner Softball Stadium that holds nearly 1,400 fans.

The debut of the Student Learning Center transforms the central precinct of the campus, becoming the academic hub of campus life.

The Complex Carbohydrate Research Center gets a new building with more than 140,000 square feet.

Eve Troutt Powell, associate professor of history, becomes the first UGA faculty member to receive a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award.”

Twelve students are the first to graduate from programs offered at the Gwinnett University Center.

Opened in fall, the East Campus Village is a complex of four apartment-style residence halls that provides housing for more than 1,200 students.

D.W. Brooks Mall is created, replacing the former Brooks Drive with green space.

Enrollment at UGA’s Tifton campus, born from a 1919 agricultural experiment station, is double that of the year before.

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“The teacher was always right,” he says.

His father, a manager with Kraft Foods, moved the family often as he took on company challenges. Adams believes the experience of having to introduce himself to new schoolmates and neighbors so often helped him learn how to make new friends quickly. “My mother said because of that, I never knew a stranger,” he says.

Even as a kid he loved politics,

sitting transfixed in front of day-long TV convention coverage as delegates argued seating rules and procedures. As an undergraduate student at Lipscomb University in Nashville, he launched the studies that would later take him to The Ohio State University, where he earned a Ph.D. in communications. His major professor there, Jim Golden, remained an advisor to Adams until his death in 2003.

“He was the whole package,” Adams says of Golden. “He reeked of

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Adams met his wife, Mary, at Lipscomb University, where she sat next to him in a history class. As UGA’s first lady, she had a strong impact on campus renovation and restoration.

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Adams reads to 3- and 4-year-old children at the McPhaul Child Development Laboratory on campus in January 2010. When one of the children announced that he was going to kindergarten, Adams assured them that they all would be in kindergarten soon. “And before your parents know it,” he said, “you’ll be here with us at the University of Georgia.”

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2005 After 37 years in Cortona, Italy, the Lamar Dodd School of Art inaugurates the John D. Kehoe Cortona Center on a 4.5acre scenic hilltop.

The College of Public Health is founded, and the Office of ServiceLearning is established.

The first two degree completion programs are created at UGA’s Griffin campus.

The Terry College of Business opens its Executive Education Center in Atlanta’s Buckhead district.

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integrity. His whole bearing had a kind of gravitas. He could talk about Cicero as easily as he could talk about John Kennedy, and he talked a lot about both.”

By then Adams had met his wife Mary, who sat next to him in a history class at Lipscomb. They have two grown sons, both married, and three grandchildren.

“She’s pretty cagey,” he says of Mary Adams’ intelligence and skill at landing jobs and forging on, even in the days when they moved often and “didn’t have two nickels to rub together.”

“She has an innate sixth sense about people and about what is important, and what is not,” Adams said

The new 140,000-squarefoot Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences is dedicated.

The 300-strong Redcoat Marching Band visits China, performing to stadium crowds during a 16-day trip covering more than 20,000 miles.

UGA, SPIA and the Carl Vinson Institute for Government host “The Carter Presidency: Lessons for the 21st Century,” a conference exploring the challenges of the Carter presidency.

Old College marks its bicentennial with a restoration.

UGA reaches a milestone in annual giving when it surpasses the $100 million mark for the first time.

of her in his last State of the University address in January.

“It is an invaluable skill in a partner.”

“One of the great parts of life for Mary and me is that we’ve lived north, east, west and south, we’ve been all over the world, and we’ve had the opportunity to listen to a lot of pretty smart people along the way,” he says. “And we tried to soak up as much of that as we could.

“It’s amazing, looking back, how all these threads come together.”

After his political work, Adams returned to Ohio State as an associate professor and later went to Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., where he was vice president for university affairs. He was named president of Centre College, a private liberal arts school in Danville, Ky., in 1988.

“It’s been the best school in Kentucky for over 100 years,” he says. At 39, he had received several offers to be a college president, he says, but felt he could do the most at Centre. His achievements there rivaled those he would mark at UGA: Tripling the endowment while raising the school’s academic and institutional profile and strengthening its commitment to the liberal arts.

Lured by a headhunter to apply for the presidency at UGA on the last day possible, Adams says the search moved very quickly, and he knew this was a prime opportunity.

“I came at a great time—a time with probably the best higher education governor ever in Zell Miller, who had a hand in my being here.” HOPE, he says, was a gamechanger. “It has so many tangential benefits. It drives faculty quality, because good faculty want to teach good students.

It takes pressure off of the need to raise huge amounts of scholarship money, which has allowed me, frankly, to raise more capital money and faculty support money. We’ve tripled the endowment, almost tripled the number of endowed faculty positions, and we spent about $1.2 billion on the campus. People probably don’t realize how much HOPE has helped all of those things.”

His tenure was not without controversy—the most significant following his refusal in 2002 to extend the athletic director’s contract beyond a previously agreed-upon date. In its wake, the UGA Foundation commissioned a report questioning actions in several areas—a report that the

board of regents rejected, directing UGA to sever relations with the foundation. The newly formed Arch Foundation became the university’s recognized fundraising arm for six years, until Adams worked closely with leadership of both foundations to merge them in 2011. At the height of the controversy in 2004 came Adams’ biggest disappointment in office—a no-confidence vote by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences faculty.

Since those early controversies, he notes, “there has been peace in the kingdom.” There may be fewer headlines, but his office remains a pressure cooker. “Every social issue in the state starts at UGA,” he says.

A crowd protesting the Board of Regent’s 2010 decision to ban undocumented students from the state’s top public universities gathered outside the president’s office in early

2009

The Coliseum Training Facility expands facilities for the men’s and women’s basketball and gymnastics teams.

The Eugene P. Odum School of Ecology is founded and named for the late UGA professor who pioneered the modern study of ecology.

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault (left), Isabella Holmes (center) and Marilyn Holmes examine the marker at the renamed HolmesHunter Academic Building in January 2001 during UGA’s commemoration of the 40th anniversary of desegregation.

Hunter-Gault (then Hunter) and the late Hamilton Holmes (Isabella’s son and Marilyn’s husband) enrolled in 1961 as UGA’s first African-American students.

The Archway to Excellence campaign raises $653.4 million, well above the $500 million goal.

UGA inaugurates its new Oxford Center, home for the Oxford study abroad program.

2008

UGA dedicates its new Club Sports Complex.

The Gym Dogs win their fifth straight and 10th overall NCAA gymnastics championship.

The Lamar Dodd School of Art opens its new home on East Campus.

The University Health Center’s $17 million expansion adds 30,000 square feet of new space.

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Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush speaks at the dedication of the Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences in April 2006. Named for the late senator, the center is one of many new buildings added during Adams’ administration.

spring. Adams says he still occasionally receives angry emails about naming UGA’s administration building after Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Hamilton Holmes, UGA’s first African-American undergraduate students. He’s also taken heat for hiring Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer Cynthia Tucker to teach in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Some issues, it seems, may never fully disappear but only recede a bit more each year.

Adams says one of the things of which he is most proud is that there is now the greatest inclusion of African Americans

at all levels of the institution at any time in the history of the university.

His colleagues say he inspires long-term loyalty and has an easygoing side to his achievement-oriented personality: He’s open and engaging in off hours, talking about the Atlanta Braves games and comparing notes on new movies. Like the rest of them, he passes around witty cartoons.

Meg Amstutz, who has been his chief of staff since 2007, first met Adams as an undergraduate while working as a caterer at Centre College, where she earned her bachelor’s

The $58 million Tate Student Center expansion increases space for student programs. In 2010, it becomes the first UGA project to receive LEED Gold certification.

Pharmacy South, the $42.9 million, 93,288-square-foot addition to the College of Pharmacy, expands class sizes by 50 to 75 students.

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degree in English. After graduation, she worked as an assistant to Adams at Centre for two years and later joined him at UGA, first working as an assistant in the president’s office.

She says he has been more than a boss, mentoring her to pursue her love of academia and allowing her to thrive professionally, even as she completed a Ph.D. in American and English literature from Washington University in St. Louis.

In her 16 years in the goldfish bowl, Amstutz has watched as Adams put in 60- to 70-hour, six-day weeks, and she believes he’s ready for some time off.

Like every person interviewed for this story, Amstutz acknowledges that the incoming president, Jere Morehead, now provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, will face the most daunting challenge in “doing more with less.” As state education budgets are cut, Adams’ last speeches waved the flag ever higher for old-school liberal arts education and the value of the fine arts.

“Look at the great private [universities] today,” he says. “Too many have become collections of professional schools. And their cores are not as strong as ours. Go and look at English and classics and religion and philosophy and all of those things that don’t draw great government grants and sometimes not as much public support.

I’ve heard all the arguments about, ‘Well, you know we’ve got these great museums where you can do that.’ I’m still a firm believer in a strong liberal arts core and a strong first two years of exposure to those offerings before one gets into his or her major.”

2010

UGA hosts a two-day symposium to celebrate the 225th anniversary of its founding.

New College, one of the oldest buildings on campus, undergoes renovations.

Enrollment reaches a new record high of 34,885.

East Campus gets a new residence hall. In 2012, Building 1516 achieves LEED Gold certification.

Stegeman Coliseum is renovated.

The Office of Sustainability is created.

2011

The Georgia Museum of Art Phase II addition includes more than 16,000 square feet. The project later earns LEED Gold certification.

He points proudly to a recent American Council on Trustees and Alumni survey of curricula that gives UGA an A rating—the only one in the state.

“The faculty at Georgia did this—I didn’t do this. I encouraged a little along the way,” he says.

He warns that more private money will not be enough. “Those things don’t pay the light bills,” he says. “I’ve made the speech a thousand times. We have to view higher education as a public good, not just a private good. The whole state

will rise or fall on a knowledge economy with a well-educated workforce.”

He’s tired, he says, “of budget battles… of what we’ve not been able to do for the faculty.”

It’s too soon to know how the Mike Adams era will look to generations ahead—but the key indicators rose dramatically under his leadership in many areas: academic achievement, faculty strength, student quality, enrollment, fundraising and the physical environment. He acknowledges that the university has been blessed with

Tom Lauth (left), dean of UGA’s School of Public and International Affairs, speaks with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and student Balaji Narain at a panel discussion during “The Carter Presidency: Lessons for the 21st Century,” a three-day symposium held at UGA in January 2007.

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Student Deep Shah (right) and Kate Vyborny (AB/AB ’05) earned Rhodes Scholarships in 2007. UGA was the only public university to have two Rhodes recipients that year.

strong leaders over its long history, each building on the accomplishments and successes of his predecessors.

Betty Jean Craige, university professor of comparative literature emerita and former director of the Center for Humanities and Arts, sees Adams’ tenure as the time of UGA’s emergence as an internationally visible research university.

“We are now a university of the world,” she says, “not just of the South.”

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U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” edition ranks UGA 18th among public universities.

UGA celebrates 50 years of desegregation with a month of events in February.

UGA swimmer Allison Schmitt brings home the most Olympic medals from London—three gold, one silver and one bronze—more than any other current students participating in an Olympics Games.

UGA dedicates a statue of Abraham Baldwin, the university’s founder and first president, on North Campus. The statue is a gift from the UGA Alumni Association.

More than 5,500 freshmen enroll, setting a new record.

UGA hosts informal peace talks between officials from North Korea, South Korea and the U.S.

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UGA dedicates the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.

2012

The College of Engineering is UGA’s 17th academic school or college.

The Jackson Street Building is renovated with environmentally sustainable features like solar panels and a water recapture system.

2013

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance ranks UGA 15th in its 2013 list of the “100 Best Values in Public Colleges.”

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Frugal and private, an alumnus who loved books left millions to the UGA Libraries

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ven as he slowly amassed a fortune of nearly $4 million, through owning stock in Georgia-grown companies such as Coca-Cola, and penny-pinching grocery bills, Sidney Samuel Thomas loved splurging on books and the UGA Libraries.

Thomas (BBA ’46, MAJ ’50) devoured three to four books a week, even in the days before he died at age 89. Armed with release dates, the voracious reader—and retired librarian— visited Barnes & Noble weekly to buy the newest biographies, novels and other books.

“He always had a book. He was consumed until he got finished with the book,” says Thomas’ cousin, Bill McGraw (BSA ’71, MEd ’72).

When Thomas died of congestive heart failure in May 2012 he left his fortune, believed to be worth between $3 million and $4 million once the estate is fully settled, to the UGA Libraries. Thomas designated the money be used to buy books and help pay for construction of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.

Thomas’ love of books and investing began at an early age. He put money into stocks as a 10-year-old in the 1930s.

Thomas, who served in World War II, referenced buying more stock in letters to his mother.

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who never married and did not have children, donated it to the UGA Libraries three years ago.

The book lover practiced Ebenezer Scrooge-like frugality. He scrutinized grocery receipts before leaving the store to see if the cashier made any errors. “You would always factor in an extra 10 minutes because he was going to sit there and go over this list,” McGraw recalls. “You know what? You’d be surprised. About every third time, he would find something and get it free.”

When the air conditioning on Thomas’ 1986 Honda broke a year after he got the car, he didn’t pay to fix it and endured the heat for 20 years. “He’d come home

“He was this little old man that nobody knew. He was not flashy,” McGraw says.

But he spent money on the things he held dear. On what he once called a “paltry” salary, he built a book collection that included signed first editions and early review copies of books.

Some of his book purchases became stories in themselves. Thomas acquired his most prized literary possession, a first edition of the racy novel Lolita, while working as a civilian librarian during the 1950s at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

He traveled to Paris for the book and later told McGraw that entering the bookstore felt like going into a “house of ill repute.” When he asked for the book, the shopkeeper looked around, then pulled it out from underneath the counter. Vladimir Nabokov’s novel cost $6, but was valued at $10,000 when Thomas,

Bill McGraw shows items for sale that belonged to Thomas. McGraw is one of Thomas’ cousins and handled the estate sale.

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and be soaking wet,” McGraw says.

McGraw finally told him he had to buy a new car. Thomas spent $16,000 on a new 2006 Toyota with air conditioning, but wasn’t willing to pay for power windows. Thomas even scrimped on buying paper towels, instead taking them from his gym after swimming.

“If he got a bill and there was an extra $2 charge, he would spend hours trying to find out that $2 charge. I guess that’s how you get $4 million, if you pinch every penny,” McGraw says.

Thomas moved back to Athens in 1985 after retiring as an acquisitions librarian at Georgia State University, returning to the home his family bought

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in 1936. The kitchen, with black-and-white tile countertops, was left unchanged since 1930. Thomas made small investments in the two-bedroom brick home, including turning a screened porch into a sunroom where he often read.

But like any complex character in the novels Thomas loved by authors such as John Updike, he was willing to spend money on high-quality and one-of-a-kind items. He invested in high-end furniture from Henkel Harris, hand-painted Japanese screens and artwork, including an oil painting by Robert Meredith (BFA ’63).

His wardrobe included pricey Brooks Brothers shirts and handmade sweaters from Ireland, Iceland and England.

“Over time, he would call it treating himself and buy something nice, but then it was back to the straight and narrow for a while,” McGraw says.

Thomas weekly bagged up books and donated them to the UGA Libraries, just one-and-a-half miles from his tree-lined street in the Five Points neighborhood. In March, nearly 100 people lined up to attend an estate sale that included furniture from the late 1800s and early 1900s, military uniforms and needlepoint pieces.

Sales of items, ranging from $6 to $800, raised another $20,000, McGraw says. Some of Thomas’ books were among the 2,000 hardbacks and paperbacks the UGA Libraries sold in his shady backyard over the weekend. As kids, college students and adults filled boxes and plastic bags with books, some took home with them a piece of Thomas’ legacy at UGA. The legacy also includes the Sidney Samuel Thomas Biography Collection and the Sidney Samuel Thomas Modern Literature Collection, both created by donations from his personal library. The rotunda in the special collections library and the reading room in the Zell B. Miller Learning Center are named for him in honor of his gifts to UGA. In a piece that was printed in the Libraries newsletter, Beyond the Pages, in spring 2012, Thomas wrote: “Two hundred years from now a student may wander into the Rotunda of the Russell Special Collections Library and, seeing my name grandly sweeping up the curving staircase to the second floor, ask ‘Who was this Sidney Samuel Thomas?’ If he reads the plaque he will discover that he was a man who loved books and the University of Georgia and did something about it.”

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(Left to right) First-year Medical Partnership students Grace Yaguchi, Michael Lou and Sallie McSwain stroll down Prince Avenue in front of the Health Sciences Campus.

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The 56-acre site, deeded to the university by the U.S. Department of Education after the Navy school closed, served about 550 public health students, 120 Medical Partnership students and 140 faculty and staff last fall. Once renovations are complete in fall 2015, about 1,650 faculty, staff and students will be based on the campus. The total will rise to 1,800 with the addition of students who will live in residence halls on the property. Get more at publichealth.uga.edu and medicalpartnership.usg.edu.

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(Below) Medical Partnership Assistant Professor Dr. Toby Tally explains an assignment to first-year students in a gross anatomy lab. (Right) Dr. Cheryl Dickson, Medical Partnership associate dean for student and multicultural affairs, talks with third-year medical student Paul Baker of Albany in front of Winnie Davis Hall. (Bottom) Secondyear medical students listen as Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. Howard Cohen leads a class in a second-floor classroom in Russell Hall.

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(Left) John Vena, UGA Foundation Professor and head of the department of epidemiology and biostatistics in the College of Public Health, lectures his doctoral epidemiology seminar class in Miller Hall. (Bottom) Children enjoy the playground at the University Childcare Center on the Health Sciences Campus, which opened in January 2012. (Opposite page top left) As part of the Essentials of Clinical Medicine curriculum, second-year medical student Lindsay Sweat performs a routine exam on Kay Richmond, a simulated patient volunteer. The simulated patient encounters take place in the small group classrooms on the first floor of Russell Hall. (Opposite page top right) Second-year medical students, including Michael Schecter (right), wait in the hallway for their turn to participate in a simulated patient encounter. (Opposite page bottom) From left, students Jennifer Copeland of Cumming, Miranda Iverson of Atlanta and Brooke King of Ellenwood listen to classmate Kenasia Brown of Augusta ask a question in Professor Stephen Rathbun’s biostatistics class in Russell Hall. At far right is student Minsu Kang of Daegu, South Korea.

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Thanks, Abe

The Stephens siblings owe their existence to President Abraham Lincoln— and the proof is on display at UGA. (Left to right) Winston Stephens (AB ’63); Rob Stephens, a 1971 graduate of the Medical College of Georgia; Lawton Stephens (JD ’81) and Mary Hopper (AB ’74, MPA ’83) are descendants of Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy. In 1865 Stephens and Lincoln met in an attempt to negotiate the end of the Civil War. The session ended without progress, but Lincoln asked Stephens—a former Congressional colleague—if there was anything else he could do for him. And there was: Stephens’ nephew, John, had been captured by the Union, and Lincoln agreed to release him if the Confederacy would release a Union soldier of equivalent rank. After his release, John Stephens was taken to the White House, where Lincoln presented him with a letter to deliver to his uncle. The letter was handed down through the Stephens family and now is displayed at UGA’s Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library (www.libs.uga. edu/hargrett).

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Compiled by Chase Martin 1945-1949 Sam Massell (M ’48) received recognition for his involvement in the Real Estate Catalyst Deal of the Year by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

1960-1964 Stuart Woods (AB ’60) of Key West, Fla., married Jeanmarie Cooper Jan. 10.

1970-1974 John C. Tardy (MPA ’72) of Walnut, Miss., was elected commander of the American

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Legion Department of Mississippi.

David Loughridge (BSA ’73, DVM ’78) of Chatsworth was named Veterinarian of the Year by the Georgia Cattlemen’s Association.

Mike Morris (BSEd ’73, MEd ’74, JD ’79) of Athens was named chair of the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce.

1975-1979 Earl V. Rogers (BBA ’76) of Marietta will become the new president and CEO of the Georgia Hospital Association in July.

William Daniel Kibler (ABJ ’78) of Winston-Salem, N.C., won the Governor’s Award as Conservation Communicator of the Year from

the North Carolina Wildlife Federation. Kibler is managing editor of North Carolina Sportsman and South Carolina Sportsman magazines. Yvonne Durrett Williams (ABJ ’78) of Marietta was one of 50 women leaders selected from across the nation to participate in the 2013 class of Leadership America, the longest-running women’s leadership development program in the U.S. 1980-1984 Doug DePriest (ABJ ’80) of Marietta was honored with a nomination from the International Documentary Association for the documentary “Bomb Patrol:

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The greater good Former New York financier now helps Georgians escape poverty

by Kelly Simmons Greg Skowronski’s vacation to Tanzania in 2007 included a safari and climbing Mt. Kilamanjaro. Along the way, it turned into a much deeper experience, one that would change the course of his career.

“The unanticipated part of the trip was the firsthand experience with poverty,” says Skowronski (BBA ’99). “It just became very real to me.”

After seven years of investment banking on Wall Street he had recently returned to his hometown of Atlanta and taken a job in PETER FREY GREG SKOWRONSKI finance for an Atlanta real estate company. Following the Tanzania trip, his plans changed. He began looking for an opportunity to help the African people improve their situation.

Afghanistan.” Stanley E. Clarke He began learning about microfinance, small loans to help people start or grow a business.

III (BSA ’81) was named director of “I saw how microfinance was being used to improve poverty,” he says. “It was the Air National Guard. Charles a light bulb moment. Someone with a business background could help alleviate W. “Bill” Robinson (AB ’81) of poverty. I always thought it had to be a doctor or a teacher.”

Carrollton, Va., completed a yearHe found an organization launching a pilot program that partnered with churches in South Africa to teach business skills to the local people. In 2009, he went to long deployment in Afghanistan as a South Africa to head the organization’s microcredit division.

Department of Defense information “It was amazing,” he says, “to live in Johannesburg where you could go from technology manager. He received a (nice) restaurant to what they call an informal settlement—what we would call a the Meritorious Civilian Service slum.”

For the next two years he visited with local businesses and people living in the Award in recognition of his informal settlements to talk about small business training. The organization offered a achievements there. David business program to teach the potential entrepreneurs about record keeping, pricing, Howard (BS ’83) of Peru, Kan., market research and advertising. Those who participated in the program were eligible completed the national registry for small loans to grow their businesses.

Hairdressing, sewing and “tuck” shops, business that sold dry goods and served exam while working at Jane Phillips as convenience stores, were popular.

Hospital for RML Laboratories in The training, Skowronski says, empowered the South Africans to take their busiBartlesville, Okla. Donald Bailey nesses to the next level. That helped bridge the cultural divide between the business (ABJ ’84) of Shreveport, La., was professionals who volunteered with the program and the entrepreneurs from the settlements. named president and publisher of “It was more of a peer relationship,” he says.

The Telegraph in Macon.

After two years, the program was running well and local volunteers had been Julie Moran (ABJ ’84) of Santa trained to teach the business practices. Skowronski weighed the idea of staying in Monica, Calif., debuted her new Africa but decided to return to the U.S. to look at the underlying causes of poverty and ways to make systemic changes. series “Mission Makeover” on the Upon his return to Atlanta he found work at Habitat for Humanity International, Lifetime network. managing the organization’s Flexible Capital Access Program. Through FlexCAP, banks, insurance companies and foundations make loans to Habitat so that the or1985-1989 ganization can build affordable homes at a faster rate. FlexCAP loans are repaid with the mortgages from previously sold Habitat houses. With a foreclosure rate of less Bob Behler (ABJ ’85) of Boise, than 2 percent, Habitat is a better investment for banks than the general market.

Idaho, was selected as the Idaho “We have a 100 percent on time repayment rate to investors,” Skowronski says.

Sportscaster of the Year for He says he doesn’t miss Wall Street. the third year in a row. Tonya “For me this is the perfect blend,” Skowronski says. “Dealing with Wall Street Henderson Freeman (AB ’86) of banks but doing it for a social purpose.”

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Greetings my fellow alumni: We’ve come to the end of my two-year term as alumni president.

It’s hard to believe that this time has come as it feels like it was just yesterday that I took the reins as president. It’s been said that time flies when you are having fun and enjoying what you are doing. I can attest to the truth of this statement as I have truly enjoyed being your alumni president.

Steve Jones The main focus of my presidency has been to keep my fellow alumni active and involved with UGA—as I am a firm believer that interested, engaged and positive alumni improve the university as a whole. This has been a tremendous undertaking, as there are over 275,000 living UGA alumni in all parts of the state, nation and world.

During my two years as president, I was privileged to have the opportunity to travel the state and the nation to meet our alumni who are using their UGA degrees in a variety of fields, improving our communities and representing UGA well. I encourage all of our alumni to stay connected to UGA through the network of local and UGA Alumni Association Chapters.

Also, during my presidency we continued in the tradition of the signature programs, specifically Bulldog 100 and 40 under 40. Both programs recognize our alumni who are excelling in their fields. Congratulations to this year’s Bulldog 100 class and the soon to be named 40 under 40.

No farewell would be appropriate without saying thank you—as leaders are only as good as the people who work with them. I would like to thank the dedicated Alumni Board and the awesome Alumni Association staff, led by Executive Director Deborah Dietzler, for their hard work and devoted service to the mission and goals of the Alumni Association. I wish my successor and incoming president, Tim Keadle (BBA ’78), all the best. I know that Tim will do a great job on behalf of UGA. I would also like to thank the Honorable Julie E. Carnes (AB ’72, JD ’75), chief judge of the United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia, for all of the advice and guidance that she has provided to help me be a successful alumni president. A big thank you to my chambers staff at the Northern District of Georgia, who were patient and supportive as I juggled dual roles of judge and alumni president. Last,

but certainly not least, I would like to thank my beautiful wife and best friend, Lillian (EdS ’94), for her love and encouragement in this endeavor.

With the end of my alumni presidency, we will also mark the end of the presidency of Dr. Michael F. Adams. Dr. Adams will step down on June 30, 2013. I would like to thank Dr. Adams for all that he has done for our beloved University of Georgia, and for the support that he has given to me and the Alumni Association. One of my last, most important, tasks as alumni president was to serve on the UGA Presidential Search Committee for the purpose of finding our next president. On Feb. 4, 2013, Jere Morehead was named as the next UGA President. Jere is a UGA alumnus (JD ’80). Jere’s selection is a testament to my continued thoughts—our alumni are doing great things. Jere will be an outstanding UGA president.

On the whole, as I mentioned above, I have truly enjoyed being your alumni president, but more than that, I have been honored to be your alumni president. Words cannot explain how much it has meant to be able to graduate from the University in 1978—then, some 35 years later, be able to lead its alumni nation. Thank you for this opportunity. I remain proud to be a Georgia Bulldog.

Good things are happening at UGA and in my opinion, the future looks great. It’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog!

—Steve Jones (BBA ’78, JD ’87), president

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Friday, Sept. 6

Alumni Career Fair 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Kickoff Friday

UGA graduates are invited to network with employers and fellow Bulldogs at the annual Alumni Career Fair at the Gwinnett Center, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth, Ga.

UGA alumni and friends are invited to a special Bulldog Breakfast Club to ring in the new season with Head Football Coach Mark Richt and other special guests.

Thursday, Sept. 19 40 Under 40 Luncheon

Friday, June 14 UGA Young Alumni Gathering

Young alumni are invited to this annual gathering at SweetWater Brewing Company, 195 Ottley Dr. N.E., Atlanta.

Forty UGA alumni under age 40 will be recognized for their accomplishments at a luncheon in their honor. For more on the event go to www.alumni.uga.edu/40u40.

For information on events in your area as well as alumni news, go to www.alumni.uga.edu.

Monday, July 29 UGA Day in Gwinnett County 6 p.m.

Atlanta-area alumni and friends will celebrate UGA at a dinner that will feature new President Jere Morehead (JD ’80), Head Football Coach Mark Richt and Head Basketball Coach Mark Fox. Hosted by Chuck Dowdle, the event will be at the Gwinnett Center, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth, Ga. Register online at www.alumni. uga.edu/ugadays.

Sunday, Aug. 11 Third Annual Freshman Welcome

The UGA Student Alumni Association and the Student Government Association will officially welcome the Class of 2017 by inviting new students to Sanford Stadium for a class photo on the field.

technology field at the Centers for Disease Control. Jonathan Mitchell Cook (BS ’87) of Athens was named president of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians. Amy C. Harmon (ABJ ’87) celebrated 25 years as program director for the South Carolina Leukemia/Lymphoma Society. Sheryl Maichaan Merritt (BSHE ’88) of Atlanta celebrated the one-year anniversary of her

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company, Creator In Me LLC, and her self-published book, Dates with Jesus. Guy Wesley Millner (BBA ’88) of Atlanta was named managing director of military sales at Interface. Betsy Jill Robertson (ABJ ’89) of Auburn, Ala., is a national account executive specializing in the college and university magazine market for Lane Press Inc. Robert Jeffrey Waddell (BS ’89, AB ’89) of

Atlanta was promoted to income shareholder at Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry.

1990-1994 Dennis L. Baltz (BBA ’92) of Powder Springs received the 2013 Insurance and Risk Management Professional of the Year-Walter H. Buce Jr. Memorial Award. Greg Pease (AB ’92) of Franklin, Tenn.,

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WHY give “I believe in (Terry College’s) vision of ‘national prominence.’ I know that we are capable of being as good as or better than our aspirant colleges. We have the leadership in our faculty, staff and advisory boards but additional resources and facilities are needed to accomplish this vision. This is an exciting time for the Terry College and my wife, Mary Catherine, and I wanted to be part of it.”

— Blake Bruce (BBA ’03), first vice president–wealth management, senior financial advisor at Merrill Lynch in Atlanta

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was named a member of Sherrard & Roe PLC. Brian Bohannon (BBA ’93) of Woodstock became Kennesaw State University’s first football coach. Leslie Flowers (AB ’94) of Winchester, Va., was installed as the master of Winchester Hiram Lodge No. 21, the oldest Masonic lodge in the country west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Eddie Garrett (BSA ’94, MBA ’08) of Winnetka, Ill., was named executive vice president and deputy general manager of Edelman. Brian Weaver (BBA ’94) of Newnan was named managing partner and CFO at CoLinear Systems Inc. 1995-1999 Mitzi Rubin (BSFCS ’95) of Atlanta was named vice president of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians. J. Blair Logan (AB ’96, MMC ’98) of Watkinsville was promoted to senior vice president of Atlanta-based Williams Mills Agency, the largest independent PR and marketing agency specializing in financial services. Scott Weaver (BBA ’96) of Roswell was named to the Bulldog 100 for 2013. He is the owner of CoLinear Systems Inc. Keysha Perry Lee (ABJ ’97) of Atlanta was named to the 40 Under 40 list by the UGA Alumni Association. Lee and husband Clifton also welcomed son Keyton Robert Jan. 21. Amy Middlebrooks Tapley (ABJ ’97) of Bluffton, S.C., was promoted to senior account executive at BFG Communications.

Chris Tapley (M ’97) of Bluffton, S.C., was named CIO of Coastal States Bank in Hilton Head, S.C. Kirk Alessandro Munsayac (AB ’98) of Lumber City was elected

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Reminisce about the days of old Alumnus donates band memorabilia from campus concerts during the ’70s

by Chase Martin UGA received a blast from the past when an alumnus from the 1970s donated memorabilia from concerts staged on the university campus.

Charles J. Henkin (BBA ’79) decided to give his collection of posters, T-shirts and flyers to UGA Libraries after reading an article from the March 2010 issue of Georgia Magazine (http://tinyurl.com/cvsx35x) about the music scene in Athens, which featured a photo of a band poster he knew well.

“I saw the poster for Boston’s 1979 concert and names I knew in the article and remembered everything I had kept,” Henkin says. “I’d had the posters in a trunk for 30-something years.”

Henkin dug up the collection and had it appraised.

“I … found out they were worth a lot, but I thought the university would benefit more,” he says.

The New York native’s ties to the university are deeper than his management degree and attendance of the concerts; he was part of the concert division of the University Union three years of his undergrad.

“I saw a concert at the coliseum and thought it was awesome,” he says. “Then one day I saw a door hanger on my dorm door promoting the University Union and it started from there.”

At that time, the union took applications for spots on the events committee and selected 20 people to participate.

The group was responsible for reviewing and choosing music

chief of staff for Lower Oconee Community Hospital. C. Trent Rosecrans (ABJ ’98) of Cincinnati, Ohio, was hired by the Cincinnati Enquirer to cover the Cincinnati Reds and major league baseball.

Tanya Smith (BSEd ’98) of Jesup was selected as a finalist for Georgia Teacher of the Year. Melissa Dutton (BBA ’99) was recognized

by Collaborate magazine as a meeting industry leader.

2000-2004 Hunter R. Hopkins (BBA ’00) of Atlanta accepted an executive

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and entertainment acts currently on tour, calculating the costs of bringing them to campus, creating the agreement contracts, promoting events and managing ticket sales. The annual budget was about $60,000 but varied from year to year.

Jimmy Buffett, Dolly Parton, Boston, Heart and the Village People, among others, performed at either Memorial Hall or Stegeman Coliseum. There were numerous small concerts throughout the academic year, and a big one each semester.

“We tried to be as diversified as possible,” Henkin says. “It was a different scene back then, but the shows were very popular, depending on the band.”

The collection, which also includes posters from university sporting events, matchbooks, decals and creations by artist Jack Davis (M ’52), is housed in the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.

director position at the Georgia Petroleum Council. Yve Assad (ABJ ’01) of Nashville, Tenn., was selected by the city of Charleston, S.C., to exhibit 50 of her aerial landscape photographs at the Waterfront Gallery. Kattrina Assadi (BBA ’01) of Alpharetta is engaged to Casey Lee Richardson.

Micah Lott (AB ’01) of Chicago, Ill., taught for a year at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh before joining the philosophy department at Boston College. Wade A. Schueneman (BS ’01, MA ’03, JD ’09) of Maxeys

earned his master’s of law (LLM) in taxation through New York University. Jenny Griffin Dell (ABJ ’02) of Buford and husband Clay welcomed their first child, Caroline Lilly Dell, Jan. 20. Chris Dooney (BBA ’02) and Jennifer Atkinson (BS ’08) of Nashville, Tenn., were married Dec. 15. M. Anne Kaufold-Wiggins (AB ’02) of Mableton was promoted to partner at Balch & Bingham LLP. Mary Ryals Lawson (BSEd ’02) of Cumming and husband Shane welcomed their second daughter, Reese Noel, April 19, JUNE 2013 • GEORGIA MAGAZINE

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CLASSNOTES 2013 UGA Alumni Association Awards 2013 Alumni Merit Awards Norman Fletcher (AB ’56, JD ’58) was appointed to the Georgia Supreme Court in 1989 and became its chief justice in 2001, a position he would hold until he retired in 2005. He began his law practice in 1958 as an associate with Matthews, Maddox, Walton and Smith in Rome, Ga. In 1963, he became a special assistant attorney general in LaFayette, Ga., where he also served as city attorney and Walker County attorney. Fletcher was a 2002 UGA Blue Key Service Award recipient and in 1999 received the Harold G. Clarke Award from the Georgia Indigent Defense Counsel “in recognition of his long-term commitment and dedication to the cause of insuring equal justice for all of Georgia’s citizens.”

Jack Rooker (BBA ’60) served as chairman of both the UGA Foundation and the UGA Real Estate Foundation, which he helped to found. Rooker’s first job after graduation was with his family business, Southern Bonded Warehouse.

He later became chairman and CEO of the company, serving in this capacity until the business was sold in 2005. He now is CEO of Rooker, a development and construction firm that focuses on industrial and commercial real estate.

His family’s support to UGA exceeds $2 million in gifts to the UGA Real Estate Foundation, the Terry College of Business and the UGA Alumni Association, among others.

In 2005, an East Campus Village Residence Hall was named J.W. Rooker Hall in his honor. The building’s student commons room was named the Cynthia W. Rooker Fireside Lounge in honor of his wife, who earned her bachelor’s degree in education from UGA in 1962.

2013 Faculty Service Awards Gordhan Patel, professor emeritus of cellular biology, biochemistry and molecular biology, joined the faculty at UGA in 1967 as an assistant professor of zoology.

In 1971, Patel became the first scientist in Georgia to receive the National Science Foundation/ NATO Senior Fellowship in Science.

Between 1981 and 2005, he was head of the Department of Zoology, later renamed cellular biology, dean of the Graduate School, vice president for research and

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executive vice president of the UGA Research Foundation.

When he retired in 2005, the UGA Research Foundation board honored Patel by contributing $500,000 to endow the Gordhan L. and Virginia B. “Jinx” Patel Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Indian Musical Arts.

Michael F. Adams arrived in 1997 with the vision of transforming UGA into one of the country’s best public institutions. Since his arrival, more than six million square feet of building space has been added to the campus at a cost of $1.8 billion. Projects include the Zell Miller Learning Center, the Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences, the East Campus Village, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries and the College of Veterinary Medicine Learning Center. Adams also oversaw the opening of the Health Sciences Campus and the creation of the College of Public Health, the College of Environment and Design, the School of Public and International Affairs, the Odum School of Ecology and the College of Engineering. During his tenure, enrollment climbed from 29,600 to 35,000 and the university saw its largest capital development campaign in history, raising $600 million. Annual donations now exceed $100 million.

2013 Friend of UGA Mary Adams has twice been the first lady of an educational institution during her 44-year marriage to President Michael Adams, first at Centre College in Kentucky and later UGA. In that time, Adams has assisted with and supported many of her husband’s endeavors, but has also undertaken many of her own. Drawing on her interest in art, architecture and historic preservation, she was active in the renovation and restoration of UGA buildings as well as campus improvement and beautification projects. She served on the Lamar Dodd School of Art Board of Visitors and was honorary chairwoman of the Campus Campaign for Charities. She has served as a board member for the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation and leads the Girl Scouts Legacy Circle. She was named the Girls Scouts’ Athens Woman of Distinction for 2013.

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For love of the game After decades as a volunteer, Gordon Smith leads the USTA

by Allyson Mann (MA ’92)

In 1968, Gordon Smith watched on TV as Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win the U.S. Open tennis championship.

Nearly 45 years later, Smith (ABJ ’75, JD ’78) serves as executive director and chief operating officer of the United States Tennis Association (USTA), the nation’s governing body for tennis and sponsor of the U.S. Open, a tournament that draws more than 700,000 spectators in two weeks.

It all began when the Rome, Ga., native grabbed rackets bought by his father (Oscar Smith, JD ’48) and brother (Marvin Smith, AB ’71).

Inspired by the tennis he’d seen on TV, Gordon Smith walked to local courts, started hitting with a friend and “just fell in love with the game.”

“I’m one of these people that really believes that tennis made me what I am in so many ways,” he says.

Tennis took him to UGA, where he played on scholarship for Coach Dan Magill.

“In many ways he was a second father to me and many of his players,” he says.

Smith captained the team that swept four straight SEC titles from 1972-75. In 1975 he was SEC doubles champion with his partner, Manuel Diaz, now the UGA men’s tennis coach. And Smith met Jane Kimbrell (ABJ ’75, MEd ’77) at the UGA tennis courts during freshman year. She’d come by to check out Diaz—his roommate—because she’d heard he was cute, but she ended up marrying Smith.

After earning undergraduate

and law degrees, Smith clerked for Chief Judge William C. O’Kelley of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia then joined King & Spalding’s Atlanta law office. While at the firm for more than 25 years, he defended high-profile products liability and civil cases for tobacco, automotive, pharmaceutical and heavy equipment manufacturers.

At the same time, he maintained his passion for tennis— as a player and as a volunteer for USTA’s Southern Section, for which he served as counsel, delegate at large, vice president and president. In 1996 he received the Jacobs Bowl Award as the section’s outstanding volunteer. Eventually he was named to the USTA’s national board, and when his predecessor resigned in 2007 he applied for the job.

“I just had this crazy idea that maybe this would be something I could do,” he says. “To my great shock, they actually hired me to do it.”

Smith was happy practicing law but couldn’t pass up the opportunity.

“Only something like this, where I could feel like I was giving back to tennis, would have interested me,” he says.

Now Smith presides over USTA’s staff of 350, tennis league of 350,000 players, membership of 750,000 and the U.S. Open, televised in 188 countries. He’s leading a campaign focused on recruiting 6- to 10-year-olds, last year revising the rules to allow shorter courts, smaller, lighter

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rackets and softer balls for kids. And the organization has embarked on a multiyear, multimillion dollar upgrade of facilities at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, home of the U.S. Open, in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, N.Y. But his biggest challenge is the competition for leisure time—not just from other sports, but computers and nonathletic endeavors.

“We’ve got to get attuned to the times so that kids and adults who play the game can enjoy it in short periods of time and learn it quickly,” he says.

Smith doesn’t get to play as often as he’d like. When he does, he’s reminded of what he loves about the game—it teaches self reliance, independence, fair play and honesty. And it’s a healthy activity that players can enjoy all their lives.

“I just think it has a package of things that no other sport really offers in the same way.”

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Not wasting anything Alumnus manages global sustainability programs for The Coca-Cola Company

by Chase Martin If April Crow were to see you tossing a bottle into the trash, she undoubtedly would tap you on the shoulder and convince you to change your ways.

Crow (BS ’95) likely would direct you to the nearest recycling bin, one that she herself might have helped put in place. And she certainly would have convinced you of the many economic, social and environmental benefits of recycling waste in a world of finite resources. Working as the global sustainability director for packaging at Coca-Cola, she’s been at the forefront of the company’s and beverage industry’s mission for healthier waste management.

Crow began working with Coca-Cola 18 years ago as an intern. A recent graduate with a degree in environmental health science, she was determined to stick with the company and apply her passions to help the world’s most recognized brand also become the world’s greenest brand.

While her original interest was in working for an environmental nonprofit organization, Crow says once she got to Coke she realized she could have a real influence there.

After moving around the company, Crow decided to focus primarily on Coke’s packaging and what happens to it after the product is sold. Now her work combines both her interests and is part of one of the largest recycling efforts in the world.

“It’s nice to be able to look back at the courses I took at UGA and how I’m now using what I learned,” she says. “My work gives me the opportunity to feel like I’m making a difference in APRIL CROW the world.”

Crow works with nonprofit, government and other industry organizations to implement green and efficient waste management systems. In addition to the programs in American communities, she also takes her efforts to the 200-plus other countries in which Coca-Cola operates.

“I love the global aspect,” she says. “No matter where I go in the world people recognize Coca-Cola.”

The work Crow enjoys the most are the programs she helps launch within developing and emerging markets. By working with other parties and educating the public about the benefits of recycling, she helps them improve the informal waste systems that are common in those markets. Crow helps expand recycling cooperatives that support economic and social development.

Back home in Georgia, Crow worked with Atlanta-based Delta Airlines to launch their onboard recycling initiative, and did similar work with Turner Field.

Nationally, she collaborates with organizations like Keep America Beautiful, and works with celebrities such as will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas to develop campaigns to encourage recycling.

Through the outreach of Coca-Cola, Crow has tailored her passions, weaving her love for the company and the environment.

“I couldn’t have planned it better. I’ve been able to combine my passion for Coca-Cola and my interest in sustainability.”

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2012. Brian Lunsford (AB ’02) and Brandon Lunsford (AB ’02) were named to the 2013 Bulldog 100 for their company InspectAll Services. Mary Ann Parsons (BSA ’02, MAL ’06) of Bogart was selected as an ATHENA Award nominee. Kyle Kobold (BS ’03) of Bainbridge Island, Wash., was selected for Top 40 under 40 Military by Civilian Job News.

Kobold is currently a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and stationed on a nuclear submarine in Bangor, Wash.

Angelia Chappelear (BSA ’04) of Winterville and canine companion

Fantasia competed in the AKC Rally National Competition.

Rebekah D. McCorvey (BBA ’04, JD ’12) joined Bryan Cave LLP in Atlanta as an associate in the Transaction and Corporate Finance & Securities practices. Brandon A. Mitchell (BSEd ’04, MEd ’07, EdS ’09) of Winder was selected as a finalist for the 2014 Georgia Teacher of the Year.

2005-2009 Jeana Arnold Bush (BS ’05) of Charlotte, N.C., is now a boardcertified pediatrician and will be a fellow of allergy and immunology at the Georgia Regents University/ UGA Medical Partnership until 2015. Andrew Saunders (BSFR ’05, MFR ’07) was named environmental coordinator of Athens-Clarke County. R. Jeremy Wilson (BBA ’05, MAcc ’06) of Macon was promoted to manager at Draffin & Tucker’s tax service group. Golfer Kevin Kisner (BBA ’06) of Aiken, S.C., won the Chile Classic, earning his second career title on the Web.com Tour.

Allyson Nichols Miller (BSEd ’06) and Bartley R. Miller (BBA ’06) welcomed their son, Harrison Gray, on Feb. 1. Ben Colley (BBA ’08, BA ’08) of Atlanta was named assistant vice president of underwriting for AloStar Business Credit. Leslie Friedman (BSFCS ’09) launched her own clothing line, Buchanan. Daniel Masi (BBA ’09) of Montclair, N.J., represented Pace University Law School in the 6th Annual Tulane National Baseball Arbitration Competition, finishing first of 40 competing law schools.

A Supreme honor

UGA graduate Andrew Pinson (BBA ’08, JD ’11) has been selected to serve as a judicial clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for the October 2013 term.

He is the 10th UGA graduate selected to clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court.

Six of the 10 have been chosen in the last nine years. Pinson graduated first in his class, where he was the executive articles editor for the Georgia Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. He then served as a judicial clerk for Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Pinson is an attorney with Jones Day in Washington, D.C., and works in the firm’s Issues & Appeals Practice, where he represents clients in various stages of civil litigation.

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NEWBOOKS Coastal Confessions MedEcon Analytics LLC (2012)

By Dennis Carr (AB ’80, MBA ’81) In Carr’s novel, Jonathan Browning deals with a startling confession from his wife, a mysterious, scandalous recording, and the deterioration of his marriage while working on the deal of his career.

Life on the Brink University of Georgia Press (2012)

By Philip Cafaro (MA ’88) and Eileen Crist This book reexamines the role of overpopulation in major ecological problems, such as global climate change, species extinction, pollution and food and water scarcity, bringing together contributions from environmentalists, environmental studies scholars, policymakers and other experts.

Triathlon for the Every Woman Tricycle Books (2012)

By Meredith Nesbitt Atwood (AB ’01, JD ’05) Triathlon for the Every Woman is full of expert advice, training tips and stories to turn a tired, busy woman into a tired, busy woman triathlete, no matter her size, age or place in life.

If You Can Read, You Can Cook!

An Easy, How-toManual Robert L. Lowe Jr. (2012)

By Bob Lowe (AB ’72, MPA ’74) An easy-to-do, simple-to-follow cooking manual that provides readers with a foolproof way to prepare restaurant-quality meals in a manner of minutes.

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Fretboard Freedom Hal Leonard (2013)

By Troy Nelson (BSEd ’09) This revolutionary approach to chord-tone soloing features a 52-week, onelick-per-day method for visualizing and navigating the neck of the guitar.

Life Traces of the Georgia Coast Indiana University Press (2013)

By Anthony J. Martin (PhD ’91) In this informative nonfiction, Martin presents an overview of the traces left by modern animals and plants in Georgia’s biologically rich coastal environments.

The 4th Generation CreateSpace (2012)

By Jack Cathcart (BBA ’51) This novel tells the story of four families who live on the Georgia coast, from the Civil War to World War II. Mahogany Slade Black Saint Records (2012)

By Stephen Robinson (ABJ ’96) A novel set in Athens, Mahogany Slade is the romantic yet acerbic story of young people escaping themselves in a town where your identity is everything.

Leadership Lessons from the Cherokee Nation McGraw-Hill (2013)

By Chad “Corntassel” Smith (BSEd ’73) The former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation addresses questions of leadership in his new book, using a model based on a traditional Cherokee prayer that encourages learning from different perspectives as the sun moves across the sky from sunrise to sunset.

Love’s All That Makes Sense: A Mother Daughter Memoir Bridgeross Communications (2013)

By Anika Francis (MEd ’05) and Sakeenah Francis This memoir is a book on growing up with a mother with schizophrenia, as told by both mother and daughter from their own unique perspectives.

The Spellcaster’s Grimoire ImaJinn Books (2013)

By Mark All (BMus ’84, MEd ’95) When a dying warlock entrusts an ancient spell book to a bestselling witchcraft author, she must actually master the craft to prevent a vengeful witch from using the grimoire to destroy the town coven.

Forty-One Jane Doe’s Ahsahta Press (2013)

By Carrie Olivia Adams (AB ’00) A book of poems that includes a DVD of the author’s poem-films.

Famous Last Lines Main Street Rag (2013)

By Mark Pearson (PhD ’05) Pearson’s first full book of short stories.

Employmentology: A Practical Systematic Methodology of Finding Employment by a Hiring Manager The Clarke Group Publishing (2012)

By Darnell Clarke (MBA ’07) This book provides key information on components of job searching from a successful hiring manager.

Sustainability: Essentials for Business SAGE Publications Inc. (2012)

By Scott T. Young (ABJ ’74) This book gives students a thorough understanding of the complex interaction between the needs of society versus the ecological limits on natural resources, focusing on the three “Ps”: planet, people and profit.

Final Score!

Sports Devotions Volume I & II Tate Publishing & Enterprises LLC (2012)

By Dan Farr (BS ’76, MBA ’78) In his educational and reflective collection of over 300 sports devotions, including numerous UGA stories, Coach Dan Farr connects sports experiences and the Bible in fresh, creative ways.

Selling with Noble Purpose: How to Drive Revenue and Do Work That Makes You Proud Wiley (2012)

By Lisa Earle McLeod (ABJ ’85) Using hard data and compelling field stories, this book explains why salespeople who genuinely understand how they can make a difference for customers consistently outsell their more quota-driven counterparts.

Hopper: A Journey Into the American Dream Harper Collins (2013)

By Tom Folsom (ABJ ’96) A biography of actor Dennis Hopper featuring hundreds of interviews with fellow actors, artists, musicians and residents of Taos, New Mexico, as well as his ex-wives and others who knew him.

Off the Beaten Path South Carolina Globe Pequot Press (2013)

By Lee Davis Perry (ABJ ’76) This guide to South Carolina takes the road less traveled in search of hidden attractions, unique finds and unusual locales.

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Shiny happy people

Amanda Shih (AB ’09) of Canton is the co-owner and founder of Dance inFusion Georgia, a dance studio located in Cumming.

Alumni-owned cleaning service depends on customer satisfaction to keep quality and profits high

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by Kelly Simmons When Ron Holt bought a cleaning business in Pensacola, Fla., a decade ago, he admits he had no idea what he was getting into.

Over time, however, he realized the typical business model in the cleaning industry was “upside down.” Employees were paid a set fee for their work, whether they did a good job or not. Clients could complain if they were dissatisfied but had little input over the quality of the cleaning.

Special RON HOLT So Holt (BA ’97) devised a new model, one in which clients rate their level of satisfaction with the service after each cleaning. Employees are compensated based on the client ratings, which are submitted through an online survey.

“It changed the mindset of the employees,” says Holt (BA ’97), whose company, Two Maids & A Mop, now has 12 locations in five states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. “When the employees come in for the day’s work the first thing they ask is what their feedback was from the previous day.”

The company has more than 150 employees, all of whom understand that it’s the client feedback that determines their compensation, he says. Ninety percent of them earn the top pay every single paycheck.

“Most employees are concerned about how [the feedback] affects their paychecks,” he says.

In addition to happier clients, Holt says he’s seen a culture shift in the business.

Most employees are no longer career cleaning people, he says. They tend to be younger and more motivated, looking at the business as a short-term way to make money while they get an education or build a career. Though employees stay with the company for a shorter period of time, they tend to be more professional, Holt says.

The business has grown tremendously in the past four years, he says.

Two Maids & A Mop has made the UGA Alumni Association’s list of fastest growing Bulldog businesses twice since it began in 2010. In 2013, the company was ranked 13th, up from 57th in 2012. In the coming months, Holt says he expects to grow further as he begins to franchise the brand.

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Arts and Sciences Helen S. Garson (MA ’47) of Gaithersburg, Md., taught for more than 30 years at George Mason University, where she also served as a dean for several years. She is the author of multiple articles and seven books. Faye Farmer Chatman (MA ’82) of McDonough was elected president of the Georgia Association for Women in Higher Education. Michael Purugganan (PhD ’93) of New York, N.Y., was honored by New York University with a special reception in Manila, the Philippines. Steven E. Wheeler (PhD ’06) of College Station, Texas, received the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Award. Carrie Givens (PhD ’12) of Columbia, S.C., received the Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, a one-year paid program that will allow Givens to work in D.C. with national policy decision makers that regulate marine environments.

Business Wesley Alexander Griffin (MBA ’01) of Charlotte, N.C., received the Governor’s Citation from Gov. Martin O’Malley and an Official Citation from the Maryland General Assembly in recognition of a distinguished military career with the U.S. Navy.

Education Terrance Edward DePasquale (EdD ’89) of Greensburg, Pa.,

Mildred Ray (BSHE ’39) turned 104 in was promoted to associate provost April.

She began her college career in 1931 at Seton Hill University. Kevin in home economics at the State Normal D. Rome (MEd ’91) of Durham, School for Teachers, but within a year the N.C., was named president of program was combined with UGA to form the Lincoln University. Victoria W. School of Home Economics. In 1933 Ray began teaching second grade at Hart Hunnicutt (EdS ’93) of Gray was County’s Airline Elementary School, but was recognized by Strathmore’s Who’s soon asked to take over the school’s home Who Registry for her outstanding economics classes. In order to earn her contributions and achievements in degree, she took summer courses at UGA while living in the “original” home the field of education. Kimberly management houses, located at what is now Osborne (PhD ’06) of Arlington, the university’s Center for Continuing SPECIAL MILDRED RAY Va., began a new position with Education. the U.S. Department of Defense During her career, Ray taught home economics and managed school lunch as chief strategic communications programs at a number of high schools. From 1946-1964, she taught home economics to the wives of returning soldiers at what was then known as the North advisor, supporting the Afghan Georgia Vocational and Technical School in Clarkesville.

Ministry of Defense. Matthew R. Ray lives in Royston, where she works crossword puzzles and plays card games Thompson (PhD ’08) of Lakeland, with fellow residents in addition to enjoying visits from her great-nieces and greatFla., was elected president of Kansas nephews.

Wesleyan University. Rodney Ellis (EdD ’11) of Atlanta was elected chancellor of Central Louisiana Technical Community College.

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Journalism and Mass Communication Martha Saunders (MA ’79) of Gulf Breeze, Fla., was elected provost as well as vice president for academic affairs at the University of West Florida. Charles Nelson Davis (MA ’92) was named dean of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Adamantia Kriton Hatzios (MA ’06) of Atlanta joined the Metro Atlanta Chamber as a media specialist.

Law Susan Warren Cox (JD ’78) of Statesboro was inducted as a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Mary Staley (JD ’78) of Marietta was elected secretary/

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From left: President Michael F. Adams, Donald M. Leebern Jr., Suzanne Yoculan Leebern, Greg Gregory, Amanda Gregory, David Leitch, Janice Leitch, Craig Barrow III and Diana Barrow attend the 2013 Celebration of Support.

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On Feb. 9, the University of Georgia honored its most loyal supporters at the annual Celebration of Support banquet at the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta. Honorees this year included Craig and Diana Barrow III, Amanda and Greg Gregory, Donald M. Leebern Jr. and Kroger.

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Don Leebern’s gifts to UGA total more than $7 million, reaching almost every corner of the campus, including the UGA Athletic Association, the Division of External Affairs, the School of Public and International Affairs, the C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business, the Performing and Visual Arts Center and many other special projects. His largest support has gone to UGA’s athletic endeavors, through the endowment of four scholarships for football and gymnastics, and through the support of baseball, golf, tennis and basketball. He has helped fund 34 full student scholarships over the last 10 years. He has served as a member of the University System of Georgia Board of Regents since 1991, as board chairman from 1994-95. He was the seventh recipient of the Elridge McMillan Lifetime Achievement Award, named for the longest-serving regent and USG Foundation trustee. Leebern is a member of UGA’s Abraham Baldwin Society.

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Support from the Barrows and the trustees of the Wormsloe Foundation exceeds $1.1 million and benefits multiple UGA programs including the Libraries, the UGA Press, the Office of Academic Affairs, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School and the State Botanical Garden of Georgia. The historic Wormsloe Plantation in Savannah, where the Barrows live, has provided research opportunities for other campus units, including the College of Environment and Design and the Eugene P. Odum School of Ecology. Craig Barrow is a founder of the Board of Visitors at the UGA Libraries and served as chairman of the campaign to raise money for the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. He also is founder and current chairman of the UGA Press Advisory Council. He is a former UGA Foundation trustee. Diana Barrow is a member of the board of the State Botanical Garden. In 2010, the Barrow Family received the Family of the Year Award from the UGA Alumni Association. The Barrows are members of UGA’s 1785 Society.

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The Gregorys’ support of UGA exceeds $1 million, primarily benefitting the history department at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Their gifts established the Amanda and Greg Gregory Chair in the Civil War Era and provided for graduate student and faculty Civil War-era research.

Another gift will bring a prominent historian to campus this fall to hold seminars with students and deliver a public lecture. Greg Gregory is a UGA Foundation trustee and is a member of the Franklin College Dean’s Council. He has served as a member of the C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business Board of Advisers. The Gregorys are members of UGA’s 1785 Society.

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Kroger

Bill Young, David Leitch, Michael F. Adams

Represented by David Leitch (BSPH ’73), Kroger was recognized for providing more than $1.4 million for the UGA College of Pharmacy for research and development and Community Pharmacy initiatives. The company has supported the Vision Plus Pharmacy Discretionary Fund, the Discretionary and Enhancement Fund and the Kroger Professorship in Community Pharmacy. Kroger established three scholarship funds: the Robert E. Long Kroger Pharmacy Scholarship, the Heidi Flye Kroger Memorial Scholarship and the Kroger Endowed Student Scholarship. Kroger also supported the entire Pharmacy South Building expansion. Kroger is a significant supporter of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Cooperative Extension programs and Georgia’s 4-H programs at Rock Eagle 4-H Center. Kroger was the first corporate partner in the Rock Eagle 4-H Center Cabin Campaign. Kroger is a member of UGA’s 1785 Society.

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The call of the wild Mark Warren shares his love of the outdoors with students at Medicine Bow

by Allyson Mann (MA ’92) From an early age, Mark Warren loved two things— exploring the forest in his College Park neighborhood, and writing.

“There were plenty of little pockets of forest always around us, and those were the treasures for me,” he says.

“Those were the places to which I was drawn.”

Warren (BS ’69) climbed trees, built shelters and enjoyed feeling that he could be living in another time. He discovered that he loved cold weather, noticing the beauty of what ice does to a forest.

When the weather was too bad to be outdoors he wrote stories and illustrated them, making booklets bound with yarn. His interest in illustration led him to UGA, where he spent two years as an art major before changing to pre-med.

Drawing human models and training with the UGA track team—in pole vault—had spurred his interest in medicine.

He was accepted to the Medical College of Georgia, but he gave up his spot before entering MCOG. “I hadn’t yet found what I was going to do, but I knew it needed to be outside,” he says.

Warren started volunteering with the Georgia Conservancy, a statewide conservation group, and eventually accepted a staff position as a naturalist and environmental educator.

“That gave me a great beginning,” he says. “I spent time with the state’s premier scientists.”

He also worked with summer camps like Camp High Meadows in Roswell, where he took kids on weeklong trips into the mountains. Warren spent 12 years with the Georgia Conservancy and 17 years as wilderness director for High Meadows Camp. He designed and taught Georgia’s first statewide environmental education workshops for public schools and was named Georgia’s 1980 Conservation Educator of the Year by the National Wildlife Federation.

Along the way Warren studied Native American lore, learning the skills needed to survive in the outdoors. He spent years exploring creeks, rivers and whitewater, in 1998 becoming the U.S. national champion in the slalom/downriver combined. In 1999 Warren won the men’s division of the World Championship Longbow Tournament.

And he saved money to buy land, in 1990 purchasing 35 acres northwest of Dahlonega. That site is now Medicine Bow, Warren’s “primitive school of earthlore,” where he teaches a wide range of classes including archery, survival skills, blowgun, tracking, wild foods and medicine.

After 40 years of teaching, Warren now works with the children of some of his original campers. He finds that today’s kids have a lot competing for their attention—computers,

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video games, cell phones and other electronic devices.

“We’ve got so much glittery stuff that’s fascinating to look at that you’ve got to work at it harder as a nature teacher to get them to be awed by something,” he says.

One thing that usually works is making a fire using friction, spinning one piece of wood on another.

“Create a fire in front of some kids, and magic has happened. You’re bringing fire out of nothing, it seems.”

And he finds a common theme among his adult students.

“I believe that many come here because they feel something lacking in their connection with the natural world, and they feel an urgency to reconnect,” he says.

When he’s not teaching, Warren is writing. His first book was published last year. Two Winters in a Tipi is a memoir based on the two years he spent living in a tipi after his house was struck by lightning and burned down.

Warren’s current project is a series of books on how to teach survival and nature studies. But he’s not limited to nonfiction. He’s also written novels in a variety of genres— mystery, historical fiction, parodies, comedies and science fiction. He says he’s got enough rejection letters to wallpaper his house but loves the process. He plans to keep teaching and writing indefinitely.

“It’s a great life,” he says.

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treasurer of the Council of Superior Court Judges. Don L. Waters (JD ’78) of Savannah was appointed to the University System of Georgia Board of Regents.

Henry Thompson (JD ’94) of Acworth was appointed to fill a seat on the Cobb State Court bench.

Carla Wong McMillian (JD ’98) of Tyrone was appointed to the State Court of Appeals as the first Asian-American to serve on a Georgia appellate court.

Social Work Monsignor David Talley (MSW ’85) of Alpharetta was named as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta by Benedict XVI, the pope emeritus.

Veterinary Sciences Charles E. Hamner (DVM ’60, MS ’62, PhD ’64) of Chapel Hill, N.C., received the NanoBusiness Pioneer Award for his 50-plus years of service to the fields of science, and WRAL Techwire honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award and a “Yardmaster” for his visionary leadership in the state.

Christina Chambreau (DVM ’80) of Sparks Glencoe, Md., is associate editor for the Integrated Veterinary Care Journal and adjunct faculty in the Veterinary Technician Program at Baltimore County Community College. Rebecca Kestle (DVM ’85) of Atlanta expanded her Canine Reproductive Services, buying a new building and opening Dec. 26 in Sandy Springs. Denise Funk (MS ’88, DVM ’92) of Gainesville was elected president of the Georgia Veterinary Medical Association.

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a major Obama initiative Cornelia (Cori) Bargmann (BS ’81) was selected to co-lead a major Obama administration initiative to refine and invent technologies to better understand the human brain, a project researchers hope will lead to better treatment of Alzheimer’s, SPECIAL epilepsy and traumatic brain injury.

CORNELIA BARGMANN The Brain Activity Map is a joint effort of the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation. The president has allocated $100 million for the project in its first year. Earlier this year Bargmann, the Torsten N. Wiesel Professor at Rockefeller University and head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, was one of 11 inaugural winners of a $3 million award from the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, established by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook; Sergey Brin, who co-founded Google; and Yuri Milner, a venture capitalist, to recognize excellence in life sciences.

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“I was always interested in how cells multiply, how they respond to signals and how this impacts human disease such as cancer. How does a cell know when to divide or rest? How does a cell know whether to turn into an insulinproducing pancreatic cell or a brain cell that makes neurotransmitters? Many of the decisions that cells make are tightly linked to human disease and so understanding these processes will probably lead to new cures. All of this has been intertwined with my research on stem cells and how they can be used to develop new therapies and diagnostics.

“I can’t imagine myself doing anything else. There’s so much more to do, and as time goes on the field is gaining more and more momentum. We are now approaching the era of stem cellbased therapeutics—this is going to have a massive impact on the way we treat diseases and injury. Ten years ago it was a pipe dream, but now we’re approaching an era where stem cells will be the platform for curing a wide range of human diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and neurological disorders.”

—Stephen Dalton, on how he became interested in stem cell biology and how it can be used in molecular medicine.

Stephen Dalton Professor, molecular cell biology, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Director, Center for Molecular Medicine BSc, biochemistry and cell biology, Flinders University of South Australia BSc Honors, First Class, biochemistry, Flinders University School of Medicine Ph.D., biochemistry and molecular biology, University of Adelaide, South Australia Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scientist/Clinician Award, 2003 Georgia Research Alliance Chair and Eminent Scholar in Molecular Cell Biology, 2003 Award for Outstanding Service to UGA and to the State of Georgia, presented by UGA President Michael F. Adams, 2004 Photo shot by Peter Frey at the UGA photography studio in the Georgia Center.

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Thanks, Abe

The Stephens siblings owe their existence to President Abraham Lincoln— and the proof is on display at UGA. (Left to right) Winston Stephens (AB ’63); Rob Stephens, a 1971 graduate of the Medical College of Georgia; Lawton Stephens (JD ’81) and Mary Hopper (AB ’74, MPA ’83) are descendants of Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy. In 1865 Stephens and Lincoln met in an attempt to negotiate the end of the Civil War. The session ended without progress, but Lincoln asked Stephens—a former Congressional colleague—if there was anything else he could do for him. And there was: Stephens’ nephew, John, had been captured by the Union, and Lincoln agreed to release him if the Confederacy would release a Union soldier of equivalent rank. After his release, John Stephens was taken to the White House, where Lincoln presented him with a letter to deliver to his uncle. The letter was handed down through the Stephens family and now is displayed at UGA’s Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library (www.libs.uga. edu/hargrett).

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Compiled by Chase Martin 1945-1949 Sam Massell (M ’48) received recognition for his involvement in the Real Estate Catalyst Deal of the Year by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

1960-1964 Stuart Woods (AB ’60) of Key West, Fla., married Jeanmarie Cooper Jan. 10.

1970-1974 John C. Tardy (MPA ’72) of Walnut, Miss., was elected commander of the American

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Legion Department of Mississippi.

David Loughridge (BSA ’73, DVM ’78) of Chatsworth was named Veterinarian of the Year by the Georgia Cattlemen’s Association.

Mike Morris (BSEd ’73, MEd ’74, JD ’79) of Athens was named chair of the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce.

1975-1979 Earl V. Rogers (BBA ’76) of Marietta will become the new president and CEO of the Georgia Hospital Association in July.

William Daniel Kibler (ABJ ’78) of Winston-Salem, N.C., won the Governor’s Award as Conservation Communicator of the Year from

the North Carolina Wildlife Federation. Kibler is managing editor of North Carolina Sportsman and South Carolina Sportsman magazines. Yvonne Durrett Williams (ABJ ’78) of Marietta was one of 50 women leaders selected from across the nation to participate in the 2013 class of Leadership America, the longest-running women’s leadership development program in the U.S. 1980-1984 Doug DePriest (ABJ ’80) of Marietta was honored with a nomination from the International Documentary Association for the documentary “Bomb Patrol:

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The greater good Former New York financier now helps Georgians escape poverty

by Kelly Simmons Greg Skowronski’s vacation to Tanzania in 2007 included a safari and climbing Mt. Kilamanjaro. Along the way, it turned into a much deeper experience, one that would change the course of his career.

“The unanticipated part of the trip was the firsthand experience with poverty,” says Skowronski (BBA ’99). “It just became very real to me.”

After seven years of investment banking on Wall Street he had recently returned to his hometown of Atlanta and taken a job in PETER FREY GREG SKOWRONSKI finance for an Atlanta real estate company. Following the Tanzania trip, his plans changed. He began looking for an opportunity to help the African people improve their situation.

Afghanistan.” Stanley E. Clarke He began learning about microfinance, small loans to help people start or grow a business.

III (BSA ’81) was named director of “I saw how microfinance was being used to improve poverty,” he says. “It was the Air National Guard. Charles a light bulb moment. Someone with a business background could help alleviate W. “Bill” Robinson (AB ’81) of poverty. I always thought it had to be a doctor or a teacher.”

Carrollton, Va., completed a yearHe found an organization launching a pilot program that partnered with churches in South Africa to teach business skills to the local people. In 2009, he went to long deployment in Afghanistan as a South Africa to head the organization’s microcredit division.

Department of Defense information “It was amazing,” he says, “to live in Johannesburg where you could go from technology manager. He received a (nice) restaurant to what they call an informal settlement—what we would call a the Meritorious Civilian Service slum.”

For the next two years he visited with local businesses and people living in the Award in recognition of his informal settlements to talk about small business training. The organization offered a achievements there. David business program to teach the potential entrepreneurs about record keeping, pricing, Howard (BS ’83) of Peru, Kan., market research and advertising. Those who participated in the program were eligible completed the national registry for small loans to grow their businesses.

Hairdressing, sewing and “tuck” shops, business that sold dry goods and served exam while working at Jane Phillips as convenience stores, were popular.

Hospital for RML Laboratories in The training, Skowronski says, empowered the South Africans to take their busiBartlesville, Okla. Donald Bailey nesses to the next level. That helped bridge the cultural divide between the business (ABJ ’84) of Shreveport, La., was professionals who volunteered with the program and the entrepreneurs from the settlements. named president and publisher of “It was more of a peer relationship,” he says.

The Telegraph in Macon.

After two years, the program was running well and local volunteers had been Julie Moran (ABJ ’84) of Santa trained to teach the business practices. Skowronski weighed the idea of staying in Monica, Calif., debuted her new Africa but decided to return to the U.S. to look at the underlying causes of poverty and ways to make systemic changes. series “Mission Makeover” on the Upon his return to Atlanta he found work at Habitat for Humanity International, Lifetime network. managing the organization’s Flexible Capital Access Program. Through FlexCAP, banks, insurance companies and foundations make loans to Habitat so that the or1985-1989 ganization can build affordable homes at a faster rate. FlexCAP loans are repaid with the mortgages from previously sold Habitat houses. With a foreclosure rate of less Bob Behler (ABJ ’85) of Boise, than 2 percent, Habitat is a better investment for banks than the general market.

Idaho, was selected as the Idaho “We have a 100 percent on time repayment rate to investors,” Skowronski says.

Sportscaster of the Year for He says he doesn’t miss Wall Street. the third year in a row. Tonya “For me this is the perfect blend,” Skowronski says. “Dealing with Wall Street Henderson Freeman (AB ’86) of banks but doing it for a social purpose.”

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Greetings my fellow alumni: We’ve come to the end of my two-year term as alumni president.

It’s hard to believe that this time has come as it feels like it was just yesterday that I took the reins as president. It’s been said that time flies when you are having fun and enjoying what you are doing. I can attest to the truth of this statement as I have truly enjoyed being your alumni president.

Steve Jones The main focus of my presidency has been to keep my fellow alumni active and involved with UGA—as I am a firm believer that interested, engaged and positive alumni improve the university as a whole. This has been a tremendous undertaking, as there are over 275,000 living UGA alumni in all parts of the state, nation and world.

During my two years as president, I was privileged to have the opportunity to travel the state and the nation to meet our alumni who are using their UGA degrees in a variety of fields, improving our communities and representing UGA well. I encourage all of our alumni to stay connected to UGA through the network of local and UGA Alumni Association Chapters.

Also, during my presidency we continued in the tradition of the signature programs, specifically Bulldog 100 and 40 under 40. Both programs recognize our alumni who are excelling in their fields. Congratulations to this year’s Bulldog 100 class and the soon to be named 40 under 40.

No farewell would be appropriate without saying thank you—as leaders are only as good as the people who work with them. I would like to thank the dedicated Alumni Board and the awesome Alumni Association staff, led by Executive Director Deborah Dietzler, for their hard work and devoted service to the mission and goals of the Alumni Association. I wish my successor and incoming president, Tim Keadle (BBA ’78), all the best. I know that Tim will do a great job on behalf of UGA. I would also like to thank the Honorable Julie E. Carnes (AB ’72, JD ’75), chief judge of the United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia, for all of the advice and guidance that she has provided to help me be a successful alumni president. A big thank you to my chambers staff at the Northern District of Georgia, who were patient and supportive as I juggled dual roles of judge and alumni president. Last,

but certainly not least, I would like to thank my beautiful wife and best friend, Lillian (EdS ’94), for her love and encouragement in this endeavor.

With the end of my alumni presidency, we will also mark the end of the presidency of Dr. Michael F. Adams. Dr. Adams will step down on June 30, 2013. I would like to thank Dr. Adams for all that he has done for our beloved University of Georgia, and for the support that he has given to me and the Alumni Association. One of my last, most important, tasks as alumni president was to serve on the UGA Presidential Search Committee for the purpose of finding our next president. On Feb. 4, 2013, Jere Morehead was named as the next UGA President. Jere is a UGA alumnus (JD ’80). Jere’s selection is a testament to my continued thoughts—our alumni are doing great things. Jere will be an outstanding UGA president.

On the whole, as I mentioned above, I have truly enjoyed being your alumni president, but more than that, I have been honored to be your alumni president. Words cannot explain how much it has meant to be able to graduate from the University in 1978—then, some 35 years later, be able to lead its alumni nation. Thank you for this opportunity. I remain proud to be a Georgia Bulldog.

Good things are happening at UGA and in my opinion, the future looks great. It’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog!

—Steve Jones (BBA ’78, JD ’87), president

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Friday, Sept. 6

Alumni Career Fair 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Kickoff Friday

UGA graduates are invited to network with employers and fellow Bulldogs at the annual Alumni Career Fair at the Gwinnett Center, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth, Ga.

UGA alumni and friends are invited to a special Bulldog Breakfast Club to ring in the new season with Head Football Coach Mark Richt and other special guests.

Thursday, Sept. 19 40 Under 40 Luncheon

Friday, June 14 UGA Young Alumni Gathering

Young alumni are invited to this annual gathering at SweetWater Brewing Company, 195 Ottley Dr. N.E., Atlanta.

Forty UGA alumni under age 40 will be recognized for their accomplishments at a luncheon in their honor. For more on the event go to www.alumni.uga.edu/40u40.

For information on events in your area as well as alumni news, go to www.alumni.uga.edu.

Monday, July 29 UGA Day in Gwinnett County 6 p.m.

Atlanta-area alumni and friends will celebrate UGA at a dinner that will feature new President Jere Morehead (JD ’80), Head Football Coach Mark Richt and Head Basketball Coach Mark Fox. Hosted by Chuck Dowdle, the event will be at the Gwinnett Center, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth, Ga. Register online at www.alumni. uga.edu/ugadays.

Sunday, Aug. 11 Third Annual Freshman Welcome

The UGA Student Alumni Association and the Student Government Association will officially welcome the Class of 2017 by inviting new students to Sanford Stadium for a class photo on the field.

technology field at the Centers for Disease Control. Jonathan Mitchell Cook (BS ’87) of Athens was named president of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians. Amy C. Harmon (ABJ ’87) celebrated 25 years as program director for the South Carolina Leukemia/Lymphoma Society. Sheryl Maichaan Merritt (BSHE ’88) of Atlanta celebrated the one-year anniversary of her

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About 700 runners and walkers turned out in mid-March for the sixth annual Dawg Trot 5K, sponsored by the UGA Alumni Association.

company, Creator In Me LLC, and her self-published book, Dates with Jesus. Guy Wesley Millner (BBA ’88) of Atlanta was named managing director of military sales at Interface. Betsy Jill Robertson (ABJ ’89) of Auburn, Ala., is a national account executive specializing in the college and university magazine market for Lane Press Inc. Robert Jeffrey Waddell (BS ’89, AB ’89) of

Atlanta was promoted to income shareholder at Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry.

1990-1994 Dennis L. Baltz (BBA ’92) of Powder Springs received the 2013 Insurance and Risk Management Professional of the Year-Walter H. Buce Jr. Memorial Award. Greg Pease (AB ’92) of Franklin, Tenn.,

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WHY give “I believe in (Terry College’s) vision of ‘national prominence.’ I know that we are capable of being as good as or better than our aspirant colleges. We have the leadership in our faculty, staff and advisory boards but additional resources and facilities are needed to accomplish this vision. This is an exciting time for the Terry College and my wife, Mary Catherine, and I wanted to be part of it.”

— Blake Bruce (BBA ’03), first vice president–wealth management, senior financial advisor at Merrill Lynch in Atlanta

Mary Catherine and Blake Bruce with their daughter Mary Stewart.

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was named a member of Sherrard & Roe PLC. Brian Bohannon (BBA ’93) of Woodstock became Kennesaw State University’s first football coach. Leslie Flowers (AB ’94) of Winchester, Va., was installed as the master of Winchester Hiram Lodge No. 21, the oldest Masonic lodge in the country west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Eddie Garrett (BSA ’94, MBA ’08) of Winnetka, Ill., was named executive vice president and deputy general manager of Edelman. Brian Weaver (BBA ’94) of Newnan was named managing partner and CFO at CoLinear Systems Inc. 1995-1999 Mitzi Rubin (BSFCS ’95) of Atlanta was named vice president of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians. J. Blair Logan (AB ’96, MMC ’98) of Watkinsville was promoted to senior vice president of Atlanta-based Williams Mills Agency, the largest independent PR and marketing agency specializing in financial services. Scott Weaver (BBA ’96) of Roswell was named to the Bulldog 100 for 2013. He is the owner of CoLinear Systems Inc. Keysha Perry Lee (ABJ ’97) of Atlanta was named to the 40 Under 40 list by the UGA Alumni Association. Lee and husband Clifton also welcomed son Keyton Robert Jan. 21. Amy Middlebrooks Tapley (ABJ ’97) of Bluffton, S.C., was promoted to senior account executive at BFG Communications.

Chris Tapley (M ’97) of Bluffton, S.C., was named CIO of Coastal States Bank in Hilton Head, S.C. Kirk Alessandro Munsayac (AB ’98) of Lumber City was elected

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Reminisce about the days of old Alumnus donates band memorabilia from campus concerts during the ’70s

by Chase Martin UGA received a blast from the past when an alumnus from the 1970s donated memorabilia from concerts staged on the university campus.

Charles J. Henkin (BBA ’79) decided to give his collection of posters, T-shirts and flyers to UGA Libraries after reading an article from the March 2010 issue of Georgia Magazine (http://tinyurl.com/cvsx35x) about the music scene in Athens, which featured a photo of a band poster he knew well.

“I saw the poster for Boston’s 1979 concert and names I knew in the article and remembered everything I had kept,” Henkin says. “I’d had the posters in a trunk for 30-something years.”

Henkin dug up the collection and had it appraised.

“I … found out they were worth a lot, but I thought the university would benefit more,” he says.

The New York native’s ties to the university are deeper than his management degree and attendance of the concerts; he was part of the concert division of the University Union three years of his undergrad.

“I saw a concert at the coliseum and thought it was awesome,” he says. “Then one day I saw a door hanger on my dorm door promoting the University Union and it started from there.”

At that time, the union took applications for spots on the events committee and selected 20 people to participate.

The group was responsible for reviewing and choosing music

chief of staff for Lower Oconee Community Hospital. C. Trent Rosecrans (ABJ ’98) of Cincinnati, Ohio, was hired by the Cincinnati Enquirer to cover the Cincinnati Reds and major league baseball.

Tanya Smith (BSEd ’98) of Jesup was selected as a finalist for Georgia Teacher of the Year. Melissa Dutton (BBA ’99) was recognized

by Collaborate magazine as a meeting industry leader.

2000-2004 Hunter R. Hopkins (BBA ’00) of Atlanta accepted an executive

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and entertainment acts currently on tour, calculating the costs of bringing them to campus, creating the agreement contracts, promoting events and managing ticket sales. The annual budget was about $60,000 but varied from year to year.

Jimmy Buffett, Dolly Parton, Boston, Heart and the Village People, among others, performed at either Memorial Hall or Stegeman Coliseum. There were numerous small concerts throughout the academic year, and a big one each semester.

“We tried to be as diversified as possible,” Henkin says. “It was a different scene back then, but the shows were very popular, depending on the band.”

The collection, which also includes posters from university sporting events, matchbooks, decals and creations by artist Jack Davis (M ’52), is housed in the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.

director position at the Georgia Petroleum Council. Yve Assad (ABJ ’01) of Nashville, Tenn., was selected by the city of Charleston, S.C., to exhibit 50 of her aerial landscape photographs at the Waterfront Gallery. Kattrina Assadi (BBA ’01) of Alpharetta is engaged to Casey Lee Richardson.

Micah Lott (AB ’01) of Chicago, Ill., taught for a year at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh before joining the philosophy department at Boston College. Wade A. Schueneman (BS ’01, MA ’03, JD ’09) of Maxeys

earned his master’s of law (LLM) in taxation through New York University. Jenny Griffin Dell (ABJ ’02) of Buford and husband Clay welcomed their first child, Caroline Lilly Dell, Jan. 20. Chris Dooney (BBA ’02) and Jennifer Atkinson (BS ’08) of Nashville, Tenn., were married Dec. 15. M. Anne Kaufold-Wiggins (AB ’02) of Mableton was promoted to partner at Balch & Bingham LLP. Mary Ryals Lawson (BSEd ’02) of Cumming and husband Shane welcomed their second daughter, Reese Noel, April 19, JUNE 2013 • GEORGIA MAGAZINE

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CLASSNOTES 2013 UGA Alumni Association Awards 2013 Alumni Merit Awards Norman Fletcher (AB ’56, JD ’58) was appointed to the Georgia Supreme Court in 1989 and became its chief justice in 2001, a position he would hold until he retired in 2005. He began his law practice in 1958 as an associate with Matthews, Maddox, Walton and Smith in Rome, Ga. In 1963, he became a special assistant attorney general in LaFayette, Ga., where he also served as city attorney and Walker County attorney. Fletcher was a 2002 UGA Blue Key Service Award recipient and in 1999 received the Harold G. Clarke Award from the Georgia Indigent Defense Counsel “in recognition of his long-term commitment and dedication to the cause of insuring equal justice for all of Georgia’s citizens.”

Jack Rooker (BBA ’60) served as chairman of both the UGA Foundation and the UGA Real Estate Foundation, which he helped to found. Rooker’s first job after graduation was with his family business, Southern Bonded Warehouse.

He later became chairman and CEO of the company, serving in this capacity until the business was sold in 2005. He now is CEO of Rooker, a development and construction firm that focuses on industrial and commercial real estate.

His family’s support to UGA exceeds $2 million in gifts to the UGA Real Estate Foundation, the Terry College of Business and the UGA Alumni Association, among others.

In 2005, an East Campus Village Residence Hall was named J.W. Rooker Hall in his honor. The building’s student commons room was named the Cynthia W. Rooker Fireside Lounge in honor of his wife, who earned her bachelor’s degree in education from UGA in 1962.

2013 Faculty Service Awards Gordhan Patel, professor emeritus of cellular biology, biochemistry and molecular biology, joined the faculty at UGA in 1967 as an assistant professor of zoology.

In 1971, Patel became the first scientist in Georgia to receive the National Science Foundation/ NATO Senior Fellowship in Science.

Between 1981 and 2005, he was head of the Department of Zoology, later renamed cellular biology, dean of the Graduate School, vice president for research and

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executive vice president of the UGA Research Foundation.

When he retired in 2005, the UGA Research Foundation board honored Patel by contributing $500,000 to endow the Gordhan L. and Virginia B. “Jinx” Patel Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Indian Musical Arts.

Michael F. Adams arrived in 1997 with the vision of transforming UGA into one of the country’s best public institutions. Since his arrival, more than six million square feet of building space has been added to the campus at a cost of $1.8 billion. Projects include the Zell Miller Learning Center, the Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences, the East Campus Village, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries and the College of Veterinary Medicine Learning Center. Adams also oversaw the opening of the Health Sciences Campus and the creation of the College of Public Health, the College of Environment and Design, the School of Public and International Affairs, the Odum School of Ecology and the College of Engineering. During his tenure, enrollment climbed from 29,600 to 35,000 and the university saw its largest capital development campaign in history, raising $600 million. Annual donations now exceed $100 million.

2013 Friend of UGA Mary Adams has twice been the first lady of an educational institution during her 44-year marriage to President Michael Adams, first at Centre College in Kentucky and later UGA. In that time, Adams has assisted with and supported many of her husband’s endeavors, but has also undertaken many of her own. Drawing on her interest in art, architecture and historic preservation, she was active in the renovation and restoration of UGA buildings as well as campus improvement and beautification projects. She served on the Lamar Dodd School of Art Board of Visitors and was honorary chairwoman of the Campus Campaign for Charities. She has served as a board member for the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation and leads the Girl Scouts Legacy Circle. She was named the Girls Scouts’ Athens Woman of Distinction for 2013.

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For love of the game After decades as a volunteer, Gordon Smith leads the USTA

by Allyson Mann (MA ’92)

In 1968, Gordon Smith watched on TV as Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win the U.S. Open tennis championship.

Nearly 45 years later, Smith (ABJ ’75, JD ’78) serves as executive director and chief operating officer of the United States Tennis Association (USTA), the nation’s governing body for tennis and sponsor of the U.S. Open, a tournament that draws more than 700,000 spectators in two weeks.

It all began when the Rome, Ga., native grabbed rackets bought by his father (Oscar Smith, JD ’48) and brother (Marvin Smith, AB ’71).

Inspired by the tennis he’d seen on TV, Gordon Smith walked to local courts, started hitting with a friend and “just fell in love with the game.”

“I’m one of these people that really believes that tennis made me what I am in so many ways,” he says.

Tennis took him to UGA, where he played on scholarship for Coach Dan Magill.

“In many ways he was a second father to me and many of his players,” he says.

Smith captained the team that swept four straight SEC titles from 1972-75. In 1975 he was SEC doubles champion with his partner, Manuel Diaz, now the UGA men’s tennis coach. And Smith met Jane Kimbrell (ABJ ’75, MEd ’77) at the UGA tennis courts during freshman year. She’d come by to check out Diaz—his roommate—because she’d heard he was cute, but she ended up marrying Smith.

After earning undergraduate

and law degrees, Smith clerked for Chief Judge William C. O’Kelley of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia then joined King & Spalding’s Atlanta law office. While at the firm for more than 25 years, he defended high-profile products liability and civil cases for tobacco, automotive, pharmaceutical and heavy equipment manufacturers.

At the same time, he maintained his passion for tennis— as a player and as a volunteer for USTA’s Southern Section, for which he served as counsel, delegate at large, vice president and president. In 1996 he received the Jacobs Bowl Award as the section’s outstanding volunteer. Eventually he was named to the USTA’s national board, and when his predecessor resigned in 2007 he applied for the job.

“I just had this crazy idea that maybe this would be something I could do,” he says. “To my great shock, they actually hired me to do it.”

Smith was happy practicing law but couldn’t pass up the opportunity.

“Only something like this, where I could feel like I was giving back to tennis, would have interested me,” he says.

Now Smith presides over USTA’s staff of 350, tennis league of 350,000 players, membership of 750,000 and the U.S. Open, televised in 188 countries. He’s leading a campaign focused on recruiting 6- to 10-year-olds, last year revising the rules to allow shorter courts, smaller, lighter

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rackets and softer balls for kids. And the organization has embarked on a multiyear, multimillion dollar upgrade of facilities at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, home of the U.S. Open, in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, N.Y. But his biggest challenge is the competition for leisure time—not just from other sports, but computers and nonathletic endeavors.

“We’ve got to get attuned to the times so that kids and adults who play the game can enjoy it in short periods of time and learn it quickly,” he says.

Smith doesn’t get to play as often as he’d like. When he does, he’s reminded of what he loves about the game—it teaches self reliance, independence, fair play and honesty. And it’s a healthy activity that players can enjoy all their lives.

“I just think it has a package of things that no other sport really offers in the same way.”

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Not wasting anything Alumnus manages global sustainability programs for The Coca-Cola Company

by Chase Martin If April Crow were to see you tossing a bottle into the trash, she undoubtedly would tap you on the shoulder and convince you to change your ways.

Crow (BS ’95) likely would direct you to the nearest recycling bin, one that she herself might have helped put in place. And she certainly would have convinced you of the many economic, social and environmental benefits of recycling waste in a world of finite resources. Working as the global sustainability director for packaging at Coca-Cola, she’s been at the forefront of the company’s and beverage industry’s mission for healthier waste management.

Crow began working with Coca-Cola 18 years ago as an intern. A recent graduate with a degree in environmental health science, she was determined to stick with the company and apply her passions to help the world’s most recognized brand also become the world’s greenest brand.

While her original interest was in working for an environmental nonprofit organization, Crow says once she got to Coke she realized she could have a real influence there.

After moving around the company, Crow decided to focus primarily on Coke’s packaging and what happens to it after the product is sold. Now her work combines both her interests and is part of one of the largest recycling efforts in the world.

“It’s nice to be able to look back at the courses I took at UGA and how I’m now using what I learned,” she says. “My work gives me the opportunity to feel like I’m making a difference in APRIL CROW the world.”

Crow works with nonprofit, government and other industry organizations to implement green and efficient waste management systems. In addition to the programs in American communities, she also takes her efforts to the 200-plus other countries in which Coca-Cola operates.

“I love the global aspect,” she says. “No matter where I go in the world people recognize Coca-Cola.”

The work Crow enjoys the most are the programs she helps launch within developing and emerging markets. By working with other parties and educating the public about the benefits of recycling, she helps them improve the informal waste systems that are common in those markets. Crow helps expand recycling cooperatives that support economic and social development.

Back home in Georgia, Crow worked with Atlanta-based Delta Airlines to launch their onboard recycling initiative, and did similar work with Turner Field.

Nationally, she collaborates with organizations like Keep America Beautiful, and works with celebrities such as will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas to develop campaigns to encourage recycling.

Through the outreach of Coca-Cola, Crow has tailored her passions, weaving her love for the company and the environment.

“I couldn’t have planned it better. I’ve been able to combine my passion for Coca-Cola and my interest in sustainability.”

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2012. Brian Lunsford (AB ’02) and Brandon Lunsford (AB ’02) were named to the 2013 Bulldog 100 for their company InspectAll Services. Mary Ann Parsons (BSA ’02, MAL ’06) of Bogart was selected as an ATHENA Award nominee. Kyle Kobold (BS ’03) of Bainbridge Island, Wash., was selected for Top 40 under 40 Military by Civilian Job News.

Kobold is currently a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and stationed on a nuclear submarine in Bangor, Wash.

Angelia Chappelear (BSA ’04) of Winterville and canine companion

Fantasia competed in the AKC Rally National Competition.

Rebekah D. McCorvey (BBA ’04, JD ’12) joined Bryan Cave LLP in Atlanta as an associate in the Transaction and Corporate Finance & Securities practices. Brandon A. Mitchell (BSEd ’04, MEd ’07, EdS ’09) of Winder was selected as a finalist for the 2014 Georgia Teacher of the Year.

2005-2009 Jeana Arnold Bush (BS ’05) of Charlotte, N.C., is now a boardcertified pediatrician and will be a fellow of allergy and immunology at the Georgia Regents University/ UGA Medical Partnership until 2015. Andrew Saunders (BSFR ’05, MFR ’07) was named environmental coordinator of Athens-Clarke County. R. Jeremy Wilson (BBA ’05, MAcc ’06) of Macon was promoted to manager at Draffin & Tucker’s tax service group. Golfer Kevin Kisner (BBA ’06) of Aiken, S.C., won the Chile Classic, earning his second career title on the Web.com Tour.

Allyson Nichols Miller (BSEd ’06) and Bartley R. Miller (BBA ’06) welcomed their son, Harrison Gray, on Feb. 1. Ben Colley (BBA ’08, BA ’08) of Atlanta was named assistant vice president of underwriting for AloStar Business Credit. Leslie Friedman (BSFCS ’09) launched her own clothing line, Buchanan. Daniel Masi (BBA ’09) of Montclair, N.J., represented Pace University Law School in the 6th Annual Tulane National Baseball Arbitration Competition, finishing first of 40 competing law schools.

A Supreme honor

UGA graduate Andrew Pinson (BBA ’08, JD ’11) has been selected to serve as a judicial clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for the October 2013 term.

He is the 10th UGA graduate selected to clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court.

Six of the 10 have been chosen in the last nine years. Pinson graduated first in his class, where he was the executive articles editor for the Georgia Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. He then served as a judicial clerk for Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Pinson is an attorney with Jones Day in Washington, D.C., and works in the firm’s Issues & Appeals Practice, where he represents clients in various stages of civil litigation.

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NEWBOOKS Coastal Confessions MedEcon Analytics LLC (2012)

By Dennis Carr (AB ’80, MBA ’81) In Carr’s novel, Jonathan Browning deals with a startling confession from his wife, a mysterious, scandalous recording, and the deterioration of his marriage while working on the deal of his career.

Life on the Brink University of Georgia Press (2012)

By Philip Cafaro (MA ’88) and Eileen Crist This book reexamines the role of overpopulation in major ecological problems, such as global climate change, species extinction, pollution and food and water scarcity, bringing together contributions from environmentalists, environmental studies scholars, policymakers and other experts.

Triathlon for the Every Woman Tricycle Books (2012)

By Meredith Nesbitt Atwood (AB ’01, JD ’05) Triathlon for the Every Woman is full of expert advice, training tips and stories to turn a tired, busy woman into a tired, busy woman triathlete, no matter her size, age or place in life.

If You Can Read, You Can Cook!

An Easy, How-toManual Robert L. Lowe Jr. (2012)

By Bob Lowe (AB ’72, MPA ’74) An easy-to-do, simple-to-follow cooking manual that provides readers with a foolproof way to prepare restaurant-quality meals in a manner of minutes.

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Fretboard Freedom Hal Leonard (2013)

By Troy Nelson (BSEd ’09) This revolutionary approach to chord-tone soloing features a 52-week, onelick-per-day method for visualizing and navigating the neck of the guitar.

Life Traces of the Georgia Coast Indiana University Press (2013)

By Anthony J. Martin (PhD ’91) In this informative nonfiction, Martin presents an overview of the traces left by modern animals and plants in Georgia’s biologically rich coastal environments.

The 4th Generation CreateSpace (2012)

By Jack Cathcart (BBA ’51) This novel tells the story of four families who live on the Georgia coast, from the Civil War to World War II. Mahogany Slade Black Saint Records (2012)

By Stephen Robinson (ABJ ’96) A novel set in Athens, Mahogany Slade is the romantic yet acerbic story of young people escaping themselves in a town where your identity is everything.

Leadership Lessons from the Cherokee Nation McGraw-Hill (2013)

By Chad “Corntassel” Smith (BSEd ’73) The former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation addresses questions of leadership in his new book, using a model based on a traditional Cherokee prayer that encourages learning from different perspectives as the sun moves across the sky from sunrise to sunset.

Love’s All That Makes Sense: A Mother Daughter Memoir Bridgeross Communications (2013)

By Anika Francis (MEd ’05) and Sakeenah Francis This memoir is a book on growing up with a mother with schizophrenia, as told by both mother and daughter from their own unique perspectives.

The Spellcaster’s Grimoire ImaJinn Books (2013)

By Mark All (BMus ’84, MEd ’95) When a dying warlock entrusts an ancient spell book to a bestselling witchcraft author, she must actually master the craft to prevent a vengeful witch from using the grimoire to destroy the town coven.

Forty-One Jane Doe’s Ahsahta Press (2013)

By Carrie Olivia Adams (AB ’00) A book of poems that includes a DVD of the author’s poem-films.

Famous Last Lines Main Street Rag (2013)

By Mark Pearson (PhD ’05) Pearson’s first full book of short stories.

Employmentology: A Practical Systematic Methodology of Finding Employment by a Hiring Manager The Clarke Group Publishing (2012)

By Darnell Clarke (MBA ’07) This book provides key information on components of job searching from a successful hiring manager.

Sustainability: Essentials for Business SAGE Publications Inc. (2012)

By Scott T. Young (ABJ ’74) This book gives students a thorough understanding of the complex interaction between the needs of society versus the ecological limits on natural resources, focusing on the three “Ps”: planet, people and profit.

Final Score!

Sports Devotions Volume I & II Tate Publishing & Enterprises LLC (2012)

By Dan Farr (BS ’76, MBA ’78) In his educational and reflective collection of over 300 sports devotions, including numerous UGA stories, Coach Dan Farr connects sports experiences and the Bible in fresh, creative ways.

Selling with Noble Purpose: How to Drive Revenue and Do Work That Makes You Proud Wiley (2012)

By Lisa Earle McLeod (ABJ ’85) Using hard data and compelling field stories, this book explains why salespeople who genuinely understand how they can make a difference for customers consistently outsell their more quota-driven counterparts.

Hopper: A Journey Into the American Dream Harper Collins (2013)

By Tom Folsom (ABJ ’96) A biography of actor Dennis Hopper featuring hundreds of interviews with fellow actors, artists, musicians and residents of Taos, New Mexico, as well as his ex-wives and others who knew him.

Off the Beaten Path South Carolina Globe Pequot Press (2013)

By Lee Davis Perry (ABJ ’76) This guide to South Carolina takes the road less traveled in search of hidden attractions, unique finds and unusual locales.

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Shiny happy people

Amanda Shih (AB ’09) of Canton is the co-owner and founder of Dance inFusion Georgia, a dance studio located in Cumming.

Alumni-owned cleaning service depends on customer satisfaction to keep quality and profits high

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by Kelly Simmons When Ron Holt bought a cleaning business in Pensacola, Fla., a decade ago, he admits he had no idea what he was getting into.

Over time, however, he realized the typical business model in the cleaning industry was “upside down.” Employees were paid a set fee for their work, whether they did a good job or not. Clients could complain if they were dissatisfied but had little input over the quality of the cleaning.

Special RON HOLT So Holt (BA ’97) devised a new model, one in which clients rate their level of satisfaction with the service after each cleaning. Employees are compensated based on the client ratings, which are submitted through an online survey.

“It changed the mindset of the employees,” says Holt (BA ’97), whose company, Two Maids & A Mop, now has 12 locations in five states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. “When the employees come in for the day’s work the first thing they ask is what their feedback was from the previous day.”

The company has more than 150 employees, all of whom understand that it’s the client feedback that determines their compensation, he says. Ninety percent of them earn the top pay every single paycheck.

“Most employees are concerned about how [the feedback] affects their paychecks,” he says.

In addition to happier clients, Holt says he’s seen a culture shift in the business.

Most employees are no longer career cleaning people, he says. They tend to be younger and more motivated, looking at the business as a short-term way to make money while they get an education or build a career. Though employees stay with the company for a shorter period of time, they tend to be more professional, Holt says.

The business has grown tremendously in the past four years, he says.

Two Maids & A Mop has made the UGA Alumni Association’s list of fastest growing Bulldog businesses twice since it began in 2010. In 2013, the company was ranked 13th, up from 57th in 2012. In the coming months, Holt says he expects to grow further as he begins to franchise the brand.

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Arts and Sciences Helen S. Garson (MA ’47) of Gaithersburg, Md., taught for more than 30 years at George Mason University, where she also served as a dean for several years. She is the author of multiple articles and seven books. Faye Farmer Chatman (MA ’82) of McDonough was elected president of the Georgia Association for Women in Higher Education. Michael Purugganan (PhD ’93) of New York, N.Y., was honored by New York University with a special reception in Manila, the Philippines. Steven E. Wheeler (PhD ’06) of College Station, Texas, received the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Award. Carrie Givens (PhD ’12) of Columbia, S.C., received the Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, a one-year paid program that will allow Givens to work in D.C. with national policy decision makers that regulate marine environments.

Business Wesley Alexander Griffin (MBA ’01) of Charlotte, N.C., received the Governor’s Citation from Gov. Martin O’Malley and an Official Citation from the Maryland General Assembly in recognition of a distinguished military career with the U.S. Navy.

Education Terrance Edward DePasquale (EdD ’89) of Greensburg, Pa.,

Mildred Ray (BSHE ’39) turned 104 in was promoted to associate provost April.

She began her college career in 1931 at Seton Hill University. Kevin in home economics at the State Normal D. Rome (MEd ’91) of Durham, School for Teachers, but within a year the N.C., was named president of program was combined with UGA to form the Lincoln University. Victoria W. School of Home Economics. In 1933 Ray began teaching second grade at Hart Hunnicutt (EdS ’93) of Gray was County’s Airline Elementary School, but was recognized by Strathmore’s Who’s soon asked to take over the school’s home Who Registry for her outstanding economics classes. In order to earn her contributions and achievements in degree, she took summer courses at UGA while living in the “original” home the field of education. Kimberly management houses, located at what is now Osborne (PhD ’06) of Arlington, the university’s Center for Continuing SPECIAL MILDRED RAY Va., began a new position with Education. the U.S. Department of Defense During her career, Ray taught home economics and managed school lunch as chief strategic communications programs at a number of high schools. From 1946-1964, she taught home economics to the wives of returning soldiers at what was then known as the North advisor, supporting the Afghan Georgia Vocational and Technical School in Clarkesville.

Ministry of Defense. Matthew R. Ray lives in Royston, where she works crossword puzzles and plays card games Thompson (PhD ’08) of Lakeland, with fellow residents in addition to enjoying visits from her great-nieces and greatFla., was elected president of Kansas nephews.

Wesleyan University. Rodney Ellis (EdD ’11) of Atlanta was elected chancellor of Central Louisiana Technical Community College.

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Journalism and Mass Communication Martha Saunders (MA ’79) of Gulf Breeze, Fla., was elected provost as well as vice president for academic affairs at the University of West Florida. Charles Nelson Davis (MA ’92) was named dean of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Adamantia Kriton Hatzios (MA ’06) of Atlanta joined the Metro Atlanta Chamber as a media specialist.

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From left: President Michael F. Adams, Donald M. Leebern Jr., Suzanne Yoculan Leebern, Greg Gregory, Amanda Gregory, David Leitch, Janice Leitch, Craig Barrow III and Diana Barrow attend the 2013 Celebration of Support.

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On Feb. 9, the University of Georgia honored its most loyal supporters at the annual Celebration of Support banquet at the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta. Honorees this year included Craig and Diana Barrow III, Amanda and Greg Gregory, Donald M. Leebern Jr. and Kroger.

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Don Leebern’s gifts to UGA total more than $7 million, reaching almost every corner of the campus, including the UGA Athletic Association, the Division of External Affairs, the School of Public and International Affairs, the C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business, the Performing and Visual Arts Center and many other special projects. His largest support has gone to UGA’s athletic endeavors, through the endowment of four scholarships for football and gymnastics, and through the support of baseball, golf, tennis and basketball. He has helped fund 34 full student scholarships over the last 10 years. He has served as a member of the University System of Georgia Board of Regents since 1991, as board chairman from 1994-95. He was the seventh recipient of the Elridge McMillan Lifetime Achievement Award, named for the longest-serving regent and USG Foundation trustee. Leebern is a member of UGA’s Abraham Baldwin Society.

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Support from the Barrows and the trustees of the Wormsloe Foundation exceeds $1.1 million and benefits multiple UGA programs including the Libraries, the UGA Press, the Office of Academic Affairs, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School and the State Botanical Garden of Georgia. The historic Wormsloe Plantation in Savannah, where the Barrows live, has provided research opportunities for other campus units, including the College of Environment and Design and the Eugene P. Odum School of Ecology. Craig Barrow is a founder of the Board of Visitors at the UGA Libraries and served as chairman of the campaign to raise money for the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. He also is founder and current chairman of the UGA Press Advisory Council. He is a former UGA Foundation trustee. Diana Barrow is a member of the board of the State Botanical Garden. In 2010, the Barrow Family received the Family of the Year Award from the UGA Alumni Association. The Barrows are members of UGA’s 1785 Society.

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The Gregorys’ support of UGA exceeds $1 million, primarily benefitting the history department at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Their gifts established the Amanda and Greg Gregory Chair in the Civil War Era and provided for graduate student and faculty Civil War-era research.

Another gift will bring a prominent historian to campus this fall to hold seminars with students and deliver a public lecture. Greg Gregory is a UGA Foundation trustee and is a member of the Franklin College Dean’s Council. He has served as a member of the C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business Board of Advisers. The Gregorys are members of UGA’s 1785 Society.

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Kroger

Bill Young, David Leitch, Michael F. Adams

Represented by David Leitch (BSPH ’73), Kroger was recognized for providing more than $1.4 million for the UGA College of Pharmacy for research and development and Community Pharmacy initiatives. The company has supported the Vision Plus Pharmacy Discretionary Fund, the Discretionary and Enhancement Fund and the Kroger Professorship in Community Pharmacy. Kroger established three scholarship funds: the Robert E. Long Kroger Pharmacy Scholarship, the Heidi Flye Kroger Memorial Scholarship and the Kroger Endowed Student Scholarship. Kroger also supported the entire Pharmacy South Building expansion. Kroger is a significant supporter of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Cooperative Extension programs and Georgia’s 4-H programs at Rock Eagle 4-H Center. Kroger was the first corporate partner in the Rock Eagle 4-H Center Cabin Campaign. Kroger is a member of UGA’s 1785 Society.

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The call of the wild Mark Warren shares his love of the outdoors with students at Medicine Bow

by Allyson Mann (MA ’92) From an early age, Mark Warren loved two things— exploring the forest in his College Park neighborhood, and writing.

“There were plenty of little pockets of forest always around us, and those were the treasures for me,” he says.

“Those were the places to which I was drawn.”

Warren (BS ’69) climbed trees, built shelters and enjoyed feeling that he could be living in another time. He discovered that he loved cold weather, noticing the beauty of what ice does to a forest.

When the weather was too bad to be outdoors he wrote stories and illustrated them, making booklets bound with yarn. His interest in illustration led him to UGA, where he spent two years as an art major before changing to pre-med.

Drawing human models and training with the UGA track team—in pole vault—had spurred his interest in medicine.

He was accepted to the Medical College of Georgia, but he gave up his spot before entering MCOG. “I hadn’t yet found what I was going to do, but I knew it needed to be outside,” he says.

Warren started volunteering with the Georgia Conservancy, a statewide conservation group, and eventually accepted a staff position as a naturalist and environmental educator.

“That gave me a great beginning,” he says. “I spent time with the state’s premier scientists.”

He also worked with summer camps like Camp High Meadows in Roswell, where he took kids on weeklong trips into the mountains. Warren spent 12 years with the Georgia Conservancy and 17 years as wilderness director for High Meadows Camp. He designed and taught Georgia’s first statewide environmental education workshops for public schools and was named Georgia’s 1980 Conservation Educator of the Year by the National Wildlife Federation.

Along the way Warren studied Native American lore, learning the skills needed to survive in the outdoors. He spent years exploring creeks, rivers and whitewater, in 1998 becoming the U.S. national champion in the slalom/downriver combined. In 1999 Warren won the men’s division of the World Championship Longbow Tournament.

And he saved money to buy land, in 1990 purchasing 35 acres northwest of Dahlonega. That site is now Medicine Bow, Warren’s “primitive school of earthlore,” where he teaches a wide range of classes including archery, survival skills, blowgun, tracking, wild foods and medicine.

After 40 years of teaching, Warren now works with the children of some of his original campers. He finds that today’s kids have a lot competing for their attention—computers,

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video games, cell phones and other electronic devices.

“We’ve got so much glittery stuff that’s fascinating to look at that you’ve got to work at it harder as a nature teacher to get them to be awed by something,” he says.

One thing that usually works is making a fire using friction, spinning one piece of wood on another.

“Create a fire in front of some kids, and magic has happened. You’re bringing fire out of nothing, it seems.”

And he finds a common theme among his adult students.

“I believe that many come here because they feel something lacking in their connection with the natural world, and they feel an urgency to reconnect,” he says.

When he’s not teaching, Warren is writing. His first book was published last year. Two Winters in a Tipi is a memoir based on the two years he spent living in a tipi after his house was struck by lightning and burned down.

Warren’s current project is a series of books on how to teach survival and nature studies. But he’s not limited to nonfiction. He’s also written novels in a variety of genres— mystery, historical fiction, parodies, comedies and science fiction. He says he’s got enough rejection letters to wallpaper his house but loves the process. He plans to keep teaching and writing indefinitely.

“It’s a great life,” he says.

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treasurer of the Council of Superior Court Judges. Don L. Waters (JD ’78) of Savannah was appointed to the University System of Georgia Board of Regents.

Henry Thompson (JD ’94) of Acworth was appointed to fill a seat on the Cobb State Court bench.

Carla Wong McMillian (JD ’98) of Tyrone was appointed to the State Court of Appeals as the first Asian-American to serve on a Georgia appellate court.

Social Work Monsignor David Talley (MSW ’85) of Alpharetta was named as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta by Benedict XVI, the pope emeritus.

Veterinary Sciences Charles E. Hamner (DVM ’60, MS ’62, PhD ’64) of Chapel Hill, N.C., received the NanoBusiness Pioneer Award for his 50-plus years of service to the fields of science, and WRAL Techwire honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award and a “Yardmaster” for his visionary leadership in the state.

Christina Chambreau (DVM ’80) of Sparks Glencoe, Md., is associate editor for the Integrated Veterinary Care Journal and adjunct faculty in the Veterinary Technician Program at Baltimore County Community College. Rebecca Kestle (DVM ’85) of Atlanta expanded her Canine Reproductive Services, buying a new building and opening Dec. 26 in Sandy Springs. Denise Funk (MS ’88, DVM ’92) of Gainesville was elected president of the Georgia Veterinary Medical Association.

Alumnus to head

a major Obama initiative Cornelia (Cori) Bargmann (BS ’81) was selected to co-lead a major Obama administration initiative to refine and invent technologies to better understand the human brain, a project researchers hope will lead to better treatment of Alzheimer’s, SPECIAL epilepsy and traumatic brain injury.

CORNELIA BARGMANN The Brain Activity Map is a joint effort of the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation. The president has allocated $100 million for the project in its first year. Earlier this year Bargmann, the Torsten N. Wiesel Professor at Rockefeller University and head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, was one of 11 inaugural winners of a $3 million award from the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, established by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook; Sergey Brin, who co-founded Google; and Yuri Milner, a venture capitalist, to recognize excellence in life sciences.

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“I was always interested in how cells multiply, how they respond to signals and how this impacts human disease such as cancer. How does a cell know when to divide or rest? How does a cell know whether to turn into an insulinproducing pancreatic cell or a brain cell that makes neurotransmitters? Many of the decisions that cells make are tightly linked to human disease and so understanding these processes will probably lead to new cures. All of this has been intertwined with my research on stem cells and how they can be used to develop new therapies and diagnostics.

“I can’t imagine myself doing anything else. There’s so much more to do, and as time goes on the field is gaining more and more momentum. We are now approaching the era of stem cellbased therapeutics—this is going to have a massive impact on the way we treat diseases and injury. Ten years ago it was a pipe dream, but now we’re approaching an era where stem cells will be the platform for curing a wide range of human diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and neurological disorders.”

—Stephen Dalton, on how he became interested in stem cell biology and how it can be used in molecular medicine.

Stephen Dalton Professor, molecular cell biology, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Director, Center for Molecular Medicine BSc, biochemistry and cell biology, Flinders University of South Australia BSc Honors, First Class, biochemistry, Flinders University School of Medicine Ph.D., biochemistry and molecular biology, University of Adelaide, South Australia Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scientist/Clinician Award, 2003 Georgia Research Alliance Chair and Eminent Scholar in Molecular Cell Biology, 2003 Award for Outstanding Service to UGA and to the State of Georgia, presented by UGA President Michael F. Adams, 2004 Photo shot by Peter Frey at the UGA photography studio in the Georgia Center.

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